CORN CULTURE 7 



square on your record sheet. Hills having more than three 

 stalks are to be recorded as having only three, as three 

 stalks to the hill make the best stand on average soil, if 

 planted three -and one-half feet each way. 



Having completed the count on this plot, select three 

 other plots in different parts of the field, count the hills 

 and make the record in your note-book for each plot sepa- 

 rately. We are now ready to estimate the stand for the 

 entire field. To do this, we shall need to work out the 

 following problems, keeping the results in our note-books : 



1. If every hill had three stalks, how many stalks 

 would there be on each plot? How many on all four 

 plots ? 



2. How many hills in each of the plots had three stalks ? 

 Two stalks? One -stalk? No stalk? How "many stalks 

 altogether in each of the plots? In all the plots combined? 



3. What percentage of a perfect stand do all four plots 

 average? If the entire field averages as good a stand as 

 the plots, what percentage of a stand has it? 



4. How many acres in the entire field? How many 

 acres did the farmer plow and tend which, because of an 

 imperfect stand, raised no corn ? 



'5. What will this field probably yield to the acre? 

 Suppose the ears would still average the same size, what 

 would it yield with a perfect stand ? At the market price of 

 corn, what difference in value would this make per acre? 

 For the whole field? 



Counting stand in home fields. After having made 

 this study, you will naturally want to know about your 

 home fields of corn. Therefore prepare other record sheets 

 in your note-books, and count the stand on four different 

 plots of your father's corn, making careful records as you 

 did in the first study. Then work out the five problems for 

 the home field as you did for the field studied at school. 

 Show the results to your father, and talk with him about 



