PLANTING. 87 
largest yield per acre. In reporting on this 
test Director Redding says: “The season of 
1890 may be considered as about an average 
one, and therefore the results of this experi- 
ment may be taken as indicating that a dis- 
tance of 5x4 (or 2,154 stalks to the acre) is not 
too great for such land.”* 
In South Carolina in experiments conducted 
at Spartansburg, Columbia and Darlington on 
distance apart of planting, the hills ranged from 
5x3 to 6x3 feet, and the drills from five to six 
feet apart. These experiments indicated that 
Fig. 27.—F ARMERS’ FAVORITE ONE-HORSE FRONT RANK CORN DRILL. 
‘St made little difference whether the rows 
were five feet or six feet apart or the checks 
5x3 feet or 6x3 feet.” + 
At the New York experiment station numer- 
ous experiments with Waushakum corn, ex- 
* Bulletin No. 10, December, 1890, Georgia agricultural! 
experiment station. 
7 Second annual report South Carolina experiment sta- 
tions, 1889, p. 252. 
