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Planting. Plant in rows thirty inches apart and have 

 the hills two feet apart. Stretch a line the full length of 

 the row and remove soil with a hoe for the hills, break- 

 ing any clods that may be in the way. Drop in ten or 



FIG. 156. Corn grown on Experimental Plots by Pupils of the 

 Griggsville (Illinois) Public Schools 



To test the value of commercial fertilizers, plant corn on two adjacent plots. Give 

 one plot an application of fertilizer at the rate of six hundred pounds per acre, and 

 apply no fertilizer to the other plot. The following formula may be used : nitrate 

 of soda, ten pounds ; fine, dry loam, twenty pounds ; acid phosphate, sixty pounds ; 

 and sulfate of potash, ten pounds. Mix the fertilizers thoroughly before applying. 

 A twelve by sixty foot plot will require about ten pounds of fertilizer 



twelve kernels, distributing them so that they will lie an 

 inch apart ; cover them to a depth of one inch. Later in 

 the season, after the ground becomes warm and drier, 

 plant five or six grains in a hill and cover them two inches 



