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The Bulletin. 



Table VI— COMPILED RESULTS OF TWO YEARS' TESTS OF THREE LEAD- 

 ING VARIETIES OF CORX AT DIFFERENT SPACING IN THE ROWS.' 



EDGECOMBE FARM. 



Varieties. 



Cocke's Prolific 



Holt's Strawberry --- 

 Weekley's Improved - 



Yield, Height of Stalks and Ears at Different Spacing of Stalks in Four- 

 foot Rows. 



20 Inches. 



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120.0 61. 5 27 .B 



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115.0165.0 35.6 125.967.838.3 122.9 63-827.0 125.458.530.1 



126.563.817.7 130.264.023.5 131.2 66.822.3 131.6 63.823.1 129.0 67.025.7 



i 

 107.8 53.0 28.5 120.9163.0 32.7 122.9,64.8 38.7 125.0 66.5 38.7 119.0 58.8 34.7 



IREDELL FARM. 



Cocke's Prolific 



Holt's Strawberry 



Weekley's Improved 



118.555.542.0 126.060.034.4 120.054.039.2 124.5 55.5 36.5] 121.554.034.5 



127.566.031.6 124.5 66.0 30.7 123.064.534.8 118.5 66.029.6 120.063.030.7 



129.064.533.3 126.0 61.534.7 130.5 63.0:38.0 123.0,55.5|35.0i 120.057.0,31.8 



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'Results in this table for the Edgecombe farm were obtained from data of 1905 only. 



These tests were only conducted at the Iredell farm during this 

 year on a deep red rather open clay soil, which was underlaid with a 

 tenacious red-clay subsoil. Both the soil and subsoil contain rock 

 fragments. The tests were planned and put out last year and con- 

 tinued this to ascertain if the claim made by some that if distance is 

 given the large one-eared varieties they will produce 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 being compared with Holt's Strawberry, one of the 

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

 and Weekley's Improved have each, as an average of two years' 

 results at Iredell and one year's results at Edgecombe, made larger 

 yields than Holt's Strawberry, at both farms and at all the different 

 distancing of the hills in the rows that were tried. 



