Ss INDIAN CORN CULTURE. 
tending over four years, gave the most satis- 
factory yields where four to five stalks grew in 
hills 42 by 44 inches apart.* 
At the Illinois station elaborate experiments 
with dent corn have been carried on since 1558 
on number of kernels planted per ill and the 
distance apart of the hills. Asa general thing 
the largest yields occurred from planting four 
kernels in a hill, and the average yield of 69.5 
bu. of air-dry corn was the greatest amount se- 
cured, and this by putting four seeds in hills 
four feet apart. 
At the Purdue University station the rela- 
tion of thickness of planting to yield has been 
studied for eight years.{ The average results 
of this work show no material difference in — 
yields where stalks are practically 11, 12 or 14 
inches apart, but for distances exceeding this 
there is a gradual falling off in yield. 
In an interesting article on “Distance apart 
in planting corn,” D. 8. B. of Hartford, ΝΟΥΣ 
says:§ 
“The distance, after years of experiments on average soils 
is, in my opinion, 33 inches or six to the rod. This with 
good tools renders cultivation easy and rapid, and with three 
* Annual reports New York agricultural experiment sta- 
tion for 1882, 1883, 1884, 1885. 
Illinois agricultural experiment station Bulletin 31, 
March, 1894, p. 354. ; 
+t Purdue University agricultural experiment station, Bul- 
letin 50, April, 1894, p. 46. 
2 Country Genileman, March 18, 1886. 
