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PLOT III. 



Yield per acre tassels off, 2,559 poimds. 

 Yield per acre tassels on, 2,262 pounds. 

 Gain by removing tassels, 13 per cent. 



The report of a recent experiment in detasseling is published in 

 Bulletin 25 of the Nebraska Experiment Station, where the tassels 

 were removed by the use of a corn knife, and the results are summed 

 up in the following conclusions: 



1. " The detasseling of corn seems to be a positive detriment and 

 loss, as shown by the results in two years' trial. This is not conclusive 

 evidence, but strongly indicative of what we may expect from the 

 practice. 



2. "The expense is about $1.25 per acre and would require an 

 increased yield from three to five bushels of corn to pay for the labor 

 involved, thus depending on the price of corn in any given 

 locality. 



3. "Although the results of the experiment in 1892 are so strongly 

 contrasted and so widely divergent, yet we do not deem them decisive. 

 We propose to repeat the experiment on still larger areas and with 

 different varieties of corn and note the results before we announce the 

 positive rule that ' detasseling does not pay.' " 



Although not conclusive the experiments made at this station indi- 

 cate that there is more pollen produced by the corn plant than is neces- 



