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EXPERIMENTAL CORN PLOTS FOR 1883. 

 Table 2. 



These tables should be carefully studied. It will be 

 noticed that more details are given in the table for 1883 than 

 for the previous year. It is the intention of the manager of 

 the station, " Professor Lazenby," to continue these experiments 

 for a long series of years. The experiments are conducted with 

 the utmost care. The land was carefully selected and all pre- 

 pared in one day, and the planting and cultivation was exactly 

 the same for all the plots. The rows were three and a half feet 

 apart. In the table for 1882, in every case you will notice that 

 close planting gave the heaviest yields of grain, the lightest 

 yield being from one grain twenty-four inches apart, which 

 yielded forty-one bushels of corn per acre, and 3,185 pounds of 

 stalk, or a total weight of corn and stalk of 6,055 pounds per 

 acre. Plots 1, 8, 9, and 12, all of which were much closer than 

 farmers usually plant, yielded respectively of grain, 63+, 66+, 

 63+, and 62 bushels per acre, and a total weight cured of corn 

 and fodder of 9,779, 9,616, 9,431, and 9,839 pounds per acre. 

 The year 1882, in which this experiment was made, was unfavor- 



