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except in dent maize, where the fiber ^vas the greatest at the thickest planting, 

 while the total yield of dry matter was greatest where 21,760 plants were harvested 

 per acre. 



At the Maine Station I seeding at rates varying from 12,446 to 24,891 grains pei 

 acre was found to produce no marked difference either in yield of total dry mattei 

 or in composition. 



The New Hampshire Station 2 found no marked difference in composition with 

 a flint variety between planting at ten quarts and one bushel of seed per acre, but 

 with a dent variety found a much larger percentage of protein and a considerably 

 smaller percentage of crude fiber when one-half bushel of seed was used than when 

 two bushels ware used. 



The Pennsylvania Stations found no marked difference in composition between 

 seeding a dent variety at eighteen and forty-two pounds of seed per acre, or a flinf 

 variety at twanty-one and fifty-five pounds per acre. 



1 Me. Rpt. 1896, p. 31. 



2 N. H. Bui. 92. 



« Penn. Rpt. 1891, p. 30. 



