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Table VI— COMPILED RESULTS OF THREE YEARS' TESTS OF THREE 

 LEADING VARIETIES OF CORN AT DIFFERENT SPACING IN 

 THE ROWS. 1 



EDGECOMBE FABM. 



IBEDELL FABM. 



Cocke's Prolific. .1 116.0 56. C 



Holt's Strawberry 



Weekley's Improved 



156.0|68.0 

 122.5 62.2 



39.6 

 31.9 

 33.2 



121. 057. C 

 123.066.0 

 119.761.7 



36.7 

 32.1 

 36.2 



120.0 

 121.0 

 125.2 



41.0140.2 



63.034.2 



62.0 



41.3 



117.0 



112. C 



97. C 



56.0 

 61.0 

 58.7 



10.7 

 33.6 

 37. S 



120.0 54.0 

 122.062.0 



36.4 

 30.3 



122.064.032.5 



'The results in this table for the Edgecombe farm were obtained from data of 1905, 1907 

 and 1908. 



These tests were conducted at both the Edgecombe and Iredell farms 

 this year. The land devoted to this test at the Edgecombe farm was 

 Norfolk sandy loam, while at the Iredell farm it was Cecil clay. The 

 tests were planned and put out in 1905, and continued this year 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 seen above, two well-known pro- 

 lific 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 four years' results at Iredell and three 

 years' 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. 



At the Edgecombe farm, as an average of the results of 1905, 1907 

 and 1908, Cocke's Prolific produced the following increase of bushels 

 of shelled corn over Holt's Strawberry: at 20 inches, 9.1; at 24 inches, 



