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ment of the individual plants, it made no material difference ir 

 the development of the individual plant, the size of the ear, the 

 yield of grain or of stover, and hence the proportion of grain to 

 stover, whether one, two, three, four or five grains were planted 

 in a place, provided the number of grains planted per acre was 

 the same, the least distance between hills being three inches, 

 and the greatest being forty-eight inches, in rows three feet 

 eight inches apart. The following table shows the yield of 

 grain for five years, plats having been averaged so as to elimi- 

 nate the influence of rate of seeding. 



At the Mar}-land Station experiments have been conducted 

 during five years with one stalk each twent}^-two and a half 

 inches in rows three feet nine inches apart as compared to two 

 stalks per hill three feet nine inches apart. The following 

 table shows the yield to have been slightly in favor of drilling 

 every year both in yield of grain and stover : 



Year 



Yield of grain, bushels 



Drilled Checked 



Yield of stover, pounds 



Drilled Checked 



1894 



1895 . 

 1896 

 1897 

 1898 



Average 



62.8 

 35-8 

 49-8 

 50.4 

 54.6 



50.7 



58.7 

 33-2 

 42.8 

 49.1 

 54.1 



47.6 



3*291 

 2,349 

 2,675 

 1,792 

 2,987 



2,618 



3^190 

 1,824 

 1,920 

 2,142 

 2,894 



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