857 



Butt^ middle, and tip TicrneUfor seed (pp. 187, 188). — Xotes and tabu- 

 lated data on an experimeut with St. Charles ceaii on 15 twentieth-acre 

 plats divided into three gronps of 5 each. " The butt :ind tip kernels 

 were taken from the extreme ends of tlie ears and only deformed but 

 sound kernels used. The middh' kernels were tiie largest and best from 

 the middle of the ears.'' The avera.ue yields in I)iishels ])er acre were 

 as follows: Butt 00.11, middle iVlSA, tip 01. M. In experiments witli a 

 fliut variety at New York State Station some years ago seeds from the 

 tips gave the best results. 



Distance of pJ<iniin(i for (jrain and fodder (pp. 188-11)7). — Tliis \\;is an 

 experimeut on 240 i»lats, each (K) feet long and 4 rows wide. '' Tlie lows 

 ditfered in width from 1.5 to 4 feet, and the distance between the stalks 

 in the rows from 4 to 20 inches." In some cases the corn was surface 

 planted and in others it was listed. The soil used was com])aratively 

 exhausted, having been in corn lor many successive years. Three 

 varieties were used, each on duplicate plats, so that there were six 

 repetitions of the same distances of planting, two for each variety. 



St. Charles coru is a white, ]ate-iuatinin<;- variety; Learning a yellow, iiuMlinnr 

 matnriiig variety; aud Pride of the North an early yellow variety. Each may lie 

 taken as a type of a class of varieties which lind more or less favor in various sec- 

 tions of the State. * * * 



Pride of the North ripened by the middle of Angnst. It was cnt and shocked 

 August 29. Learning was cut aud shocked August 31, when it was ripe, aud St. 

 Charles was cnt aud shocked September 14. 



[The results are reported in detail in tables]. On this soil it was found that small 

 to medium sorts, like Pride of the North, yield best when the rows are 3 feet apart 

 and the stalks 16 inches apart in the row ; I^eaming about the same, though the 

 best yield of merchantable corn was reached when the rows were 3.5 feet apart and 

 the stalks 20 inches in the row. St. Charles gave tlie best yield of merchantable 

 corn when the rows were 3 feet and the stalks 20 inches apart. Listed, the best 

 yields were obtained when the rows were 4 feet f^part and the stalks 8, 12, and 16 

 inches apart lor Pride of the North, Learning, and St. Charles, respectively, aud the 

 best yields of merchantable corn when the stalks were 4 inches farther apart, in each 

 case. In genera], corn grown from the grain .should not be planteil closer than 3 feet 

 nor farther than 3.5 feet between the rows, aud the stalks should be from 16 to 20 

 inches apart for medium varieties surface planted. The highest weights of ftidder 

 were obtained when the stalks were but 4 inches apart in the row. 



Distance of planting for silage (pp. 197-200). — IS^otes and tabulated 

 data on an experiment with a large Southern variety of white corn on 

 44 plats, each 150 feet long and containing 4 rows. "The rows varied 

 from 1.5 to 3.5 feet apart, increasing by a half foot, and the stalks in 

 the rows fi*om 4 to 10 inches, increasing by 4 inches in ditferent plats." 

 On 4 plats the corn was listed, on th& others it was surface idanted. 

 The land used was a clay loam of even quality, which' liad be»Mi in 

 silage corn for several years. 



September 19-22, when the grain was in the soft dough stat<;, 100 

 pounds of green corn were cut from each plat, and the percentages of 

 ears, leaves, and stalks determined. The crop for the whole plat was 

 afterwards cut, weighed, aud put into the silo. " The heaviest weight 



