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ing tassels. In similar trials with, sweet corn the yield was 

 somewhat reduced when the tassels were removed.'' 



Tke results of an experiment at Maryland Expei-lment Station 

 in removing corn tassels, as published on page 359, of the fourth 

 annual report of that station, gives the total average in pounds 

 of corn from nine undisturbed rows as 247, and the total average 

 in pounds of corn from eighteen rows with, tassels remo\'ed as 

 223. And in an explanatory note concerning this exi)erim(nt 

 it is stated that " The greatest yield was at the rat3 of fifty-seven 

 buskels of corn per acre and was from an undisturbed row. 

 * * * It is found that ui nine comparisons of t'ows side by 

 side, only two of the rows with tassels removed exceeded in 

 yield the undisturbed rows next to them, fn .><eveu cases the 

 result was decidedly the other way. In this trial the result of 

 removing tassels was unfavorable to the production of graia." 



The following table, showing the yield of corn in a detasseling 

 experiments made at the Nebraska Experiment Station, is a part 

 /Of the printed results on page 6 of the second appendix of Faiin^ 

 Notes in the fifth, annual report of that station : 



An experiment in removing the tassels from com at the Kansas 

 State Experiment Station gave in brief the following results: 



Total weight of ears from rows with tassels removed. . 1,133.5 



Total number of ears from rows with tassels removed, 1,782 

 Average weight per ear from rows with tassels removed, . 636 



Total weight of ears from rows with tassels remaining, 663 



