SECRET.\EY'S REPORT. 



The amount of seed per acre was fouud by the count of one 

 bushel. 



Each of these lines of figures is the result of two rows forty-four 

 yards long-, each, or one-fifty-fifth of an acre. 



In the third experiment an error in planting occurred, by which 

 the one and a half foot distance was repeated, and the three feet 

 distance left out. 



Taking- the averge of results, and we have — 



Distance. Bushels seed per acre. Yield per acre. 



1 foot 22^ bushels 213 bushels. 

 IJ " 15 " 209 " 



2 " n^ " 188 



3 " 1^ " 169 



Deduction. The above table shows that seven and a half bushels 

 planted at three feet distance produced one hundred and sixty-nine 

 bushels, or over twenty-two and a half from one — that increasing 

 the quantity of seed by three and three-fourths bushels, planting- at 

 two feet distance, gives an increase of nineteen bushels, or five and 

 one-fifteenth bushels to each bushel of additional seed ; that a fur- 

 ther addition of three and three-fourths bushels seed: — planting at 

 one and a half feet gives a result of twenty-one bushels, or five and 

 two-fifths for one. Lastly, increasing the seed by seven and a half 



