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larger yields of shelled corn per acre than those producing or tending 

 to produce two small or medium-sized ears per stalk. For the test, 

 as is seen above, two well-known prolific varieties — Cocke's Prolific 

 and Weekley's Improved — are compared with Holt's Straiuherry, one 

 of the best one-eared varieties. It will be noted that both Cocke's 

 Prolific and Weekley's Improved give larger yields than Holt's Straw- 

 herry, at both Edgecombe and Iredell, at all the different dis- 

 tancing of the hills in the row that were tried. At the Edgecombe 

 farm Cocke's Prolific produced the following increase of bushels of 

 shelled corn over Holt's Strawberry : At 20 inches, 9.6 ; at 2-i inches, 

 12.1 ; at 30 inches, 14.0 ; at 36 inches, 3.9 ; at 40 inches, 4.0 bushels; 

 while at Iredell the increased yields were 11.7, 3.4, 6.2, 9.9 and 

 3.0 bushels per acre at the respective distances. 



Weekley's Improved increased yields over Holt's Straiuherry were : 

 At Edgecombe, 10.8 bushels at 20 inches, 9.2 at 24 inches, 16.4 at 30 

 inches, 15.6 at 36 inches, and 9.0 at 40 inches; while at Iredell 

 the increases were 5.9, 6.7, 8.6, 9.9 and 1.0 bushels. 



In the light of these results, coupled with five years variety tests, 

 it is evident that the largest yields of shelled corn per acre on any 

 type of soil are going to result from the use of the more prolific varie- 

 ties, because they will produce more shelled corn per stalk, and, as 

 the stalks are generally smaller and can be planted closer in the row, 

 will contain more stalks per acre. 



When the corn is planted wide apart in the row and in wide-apart 

 rows — matters not if the best one-eared varieties are used — the land 

 will not "turn out" the maximum yield which it is capable of pro- 

 ducing, for the reason that there are not enough stalks per acre. 



As seen in Table V, Cocke's Prolific and Weekley's Improved, at 

 both Edgecombe and Iredell, produced their largest yields in these 

 tests at the distancing centering about 30 to 36 inches, while Holt's 

 Strawberry did best at the greatest distancing. At the most favorable 

 distancing (40 inches) Holt's Straivherry at the Edgecombe and 

 Iredell farms yielded less by 12.6 and 4.2 bushels of shelled corn 

 per acre, respectively, than Cocke's Prolific at the distancing best 

 suited to it, which were 30 and 36 inches, respectively. Weekley's 

 Improved, with its best distancing at Edgecombe, yielded 13 bushels 

 more than Holt's Strawberry at 40-inch distancing; while at Ire- 

 dell Weekley's Improved, with the stalks 36 inches in the row, pro- 

 duced 4.2 bushels more per acre than Holt's Straivherry at its opti- 

 mum distancing (40 inches) in the row. 



