86 INDIAN CORN CULTURE. 
given from plantings made from May 15 to 
tor ΤΩΡ τ, 
In the Southern States planting begins sev- 
eral weeks earlier than in the Northern ones, 
and with a much longer season for maturity, 
so that time of planting is not of so great sig- 
nificance, as for example in Wisconsin, where 
some varieties will not mature at all, while 
others will barely mature before killing frosts. 
Every one will have to be his own judge for his 
special conditions, but it will be well to watch 
for the young oak leaves and note the tempera- 
ture of the soil. 
Rate or distance apart of planting.—!t may 
be accepted as true that where corn 1s grown 
for the grain each plant should have an oppor- 
tunity for its fullest development. With soil 
of the same character and fertility it would not 
be best to plant an acre of the same corn in 
New York and Tennessee under equal condi- 
tions as regards quantity of seed. A less amount 
would do where the plants grew large and ro- 
bust; consequently we find a person in one 
latitude growing one or two stalks in a place, 
while in another locality, with less favorable 
conditions, three or four stalks are grown. 
At the Georgia station, in tests as to distance 
of corn grown in hills, 5x4 feet apart gave the 
* Annual report Ohio agricultural experiment station for 
1888, p. 80. 
