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The Bulletin. 



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

 LEADING VARIETIES OF CORN AT DIFFERENT SPACING IN 

 THE ROWS. 1 



EDGECOMBE FARM. 



Varieties. 



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

 Four- foot Rows. 



20 Inches. 



24 Inches. 



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Cocke's Prolific 116.0 55.2 25.7 111.0 56.0 29.4 



Holt's Strawberry 119.2 58.4 20.8 120.6 58.0 20.3 



Weekley's Improved 1 107.4 52.0 25.3} 110.9 52.5 24.2 



115.4 55.9 28-7 113.4 53.9 21.9 



112.2 50.7 23.4 



121.6 59.919.8 118.3 56.919.3 118.0 58. 20.0 

 113.455.929.3 113.0 55.7 28.3 112.0 53.9 23.7 



IREDELL FARM. 



Cocke's Prolific 



Holt's Strawberry 



Weekley's Improved 



115.0 



57.0 39.1 117.3 



121.0 64.0 28.8 119.0 



56.0 

 64.0 



122.0 63.0 31.4 119.0 61.0 



33.7; 115.3 58.0 

 29.6 116.6 61.0 

 30.1 127.0 62.0 



38.0 115.0 

 32.4 111.0 

 38.0 116.6 



55.0 

 62.0 

 57.0 



36.9 

 30.7 

 35.3 



116.3 52.0 

 120.0 63.3 

 121.0 62.0 



35.2 

 30.2 

 30.6 



'Results in this table for the Edgecombe farm were obtained from data of 1C05 

 and 1907. 



These tests were conducted at both the Edgecombe and Iredell 

 farms this year. The land devoted to this test at the Edgecombe 

 farm was good general farm land, while that at the Iredell farm was 

 a deep, red, rather open clay soil, underlain by a tenacious red clay 

 subsoil. Both soil and subsoil contain some rock fragments. 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. Eor the test, as 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 three years' results at Iredell 

 and two 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. 



