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Data relative to the best 7 of the 45 competing crops—Continued. 
Statistics of harvested crops. 
arial | Average Green weight.| Dry weight. | Bushels of kernels. 
INGen| Variety of seed. Geweate = StS be ee STAY 
Sal of hil. ee -, Chem-| Water 
, |; Ker- | a>. | Ker= |... | Crib |=soa7— 
| Cobs. | nels. Cobs.| nels, |FTC€D- |cured. cally 
} | dry. 
Ft. In. | P. ct. 
1| Gourd variety of | 4.0x 6.0 | 3,188 | 14,273 | 2,726 |12, 132 255 239) 217 | 14 
southern white | | 
Dent improved by | 
20 years of careful | 
selection on his 
plantation. 
2 | Early Mastodon_____- 3.0X12.0 | 4,134 | 11,764 | 2,954 | 9, 764 213 191 | 174 20 
Cie ne (S\oy eee Bae es 3.0x36.0 | 1,821 | 9,559 | 1,174 | 7,647 | 171 151 | 187 22 
4 | White Gourd __._..-- 4.012.0 | 1,393 | 7,316 | 1,212 | 6,218 131 122 11 15 
5 | Large White __._____. 5.5x48.0 | 1,826 | 7,305 | 1,367 | 6,136 130| 121] 110 18 
6 | King Philip -__---_...| 3.5x 3.0 | 1,776 | 6,683 | 1,154 | 5,717 119 112 102 19 
7 | Eclipse variety early | 6.030.0 | 1,497 | 7,311 | 617 | 5,349 130} 105 | 95 | 31 
| yellow Dent. | é | | 
| | 
With regard to the weather and other items during this season 
of 1889 at these seven stations I have found only the following notes 
referring to the prize crop No. 1: 
Cultivation—The seed was planted March 2, 5 or 6 kernels to 
each foot of a row; the plants began to sprout on the 16th; there was a 
good stand the 25th, and the stalks were thinned out to 1 every 5 or 6 
inches on April 8; no hilling was done, but the whole acre was kept 
perfectly level. The crop was harvested November 25. 
Weather—In March the weather was warm and land moist. 
Good rains on March 3, 10, and 15; rain on 24th; 1 inch of rain on 
May 26; 6 inches of rain May 30; rain on June 4 and 5; rain on 
June 9. The season in general was rainy and wet as compared with 
other years; rains following frequently, and no irrigation was neces- 
sary. 
The record of largest corn crop up to this date had been that of 
Doctor Parker, Columbia, S. C., in 1857, who raised 200 bushels to 
the acre. 
The exact measures of all these 45 competing crops have been made 
the basis of a comparison showing that on the average of the 17 east- 
ern crops the percentage of nitrogenous matter was 10.78, but for 14 
southern crops it was 10.33, and for 14 western crops 10.26, showing 
an imperceptible difference slightly in favor of the eastern climate 
and soil and seeds. 
In respect to the general advantage of fertilizers, and notwith- 
standing the apparent advantages gained by some of the heavy 
inanuring in these competing crops, attention is called to the fact that 
competitor No. 7 raised a very fine crop of 130 bushels green or 95 
dry bushels to the acre without any fertilizer whatever, and that the 
crops reported by Nos. 4, 5, and 6 were even less than his in their 
