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apart, each way, produced the highest yield of grain 

 when planted at the rate of four kernels per hill, but 

 five kernels produced an almost equally high yield of 

 corn and a slightly greater yield of stover. 



Two kernels per hill produced the largest ears, and 

 one kernel per hill the greatest number of two-eared 

 plants, tillers, and ears per hundred plants. The per- 

 centage of barren plants increased with the number of 

 plants per hill. 



These facts sometimes lead seed growers to plant very 

 thinly in the hope of producing very large ears for seed, 

 but the opposite practice is found to result in seed having 

 the greatest producing power, as it may result in the 

 elimination of barren plants, and those that do not pro- 

 duce well under adverse conditions. 



Corn grown at three rates, namely, at I, 3 and 5 plants 

 per hill, for three years, showed an average producing 

 power of 3.6 bushels more for the thickest planting than 

 for the thinnest. 



At the Kansas Station, corn was grown in rows, 2, 

 2l A> 3, 3J<2 and 4 feet apart, and from 4 to 20 inches 

 apart in the row ; both listed and surface-planted corn 

 were tested in rows 3^ and 4 feet apart, but all narrower 

 rows were surface planted. 



Both listed and surface-planted corn gave the best re- 

 sults when the rows were 4 feet apart, and the stalks 

 16 inches apart, while in 1891 the best results were ob- 

 tained when rows were 2^/2 feet apart, stalks 16 inches 

 apart. 



The average results for three years' work at the 

 Missouri Station indicate that the maximum yields from 

 corn planted in hills 45 inches apart each way, was ob- 

 tained from planting 3 or 4 grains per hill, 4.3 bushels 

 per acre less being secured from planting 2 grains per 

 hill. Lower yields were secured in hills 45 by 22*^2 , or 

 45 by 15. 



