THICK SEEDING OF MILO IN THE SAN ANTONIO REGION. 



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Table VI. — Plants arid heads of milo in rows differently spaced at the San Antonio 



Experiment Farm in 1913. 



Spacing. 



Number per row. 



Plants. 



Heads. 



Not, thmnpri 



895 

 237 



1 169 



12 inches apart 



1 034 







Difference 



658 



135 







Table VI shows that while the number of plants per row in the 

 unthinned rows exceeded by 658 that of the rows in which the plants 

 were 12 inches apart, the number of heads per row differed by only 

 135. This difference 



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f f 



f f f f 



If 



ff f 



Diagram showing the appearance of milo plants when 

 spaced closely togethei-. 



in the number of ff 9 



heads per row is seen 



to be very shght when 



it is considered that 



the rows were 264 feet 



long. Consequently, 



when seeds are so 



placed as to have the 



plants 6, 8, or 12 



inches apart in the — 



row, with the idea ^"^ ^• 



that less moisture will 



be required to mature the crop, the grower may actually obtain as 



many heads per row as would result from thicker seeding, and he 



may find that the moisture requirement has not been reduced at 



all. Furthermore, the 

 thin seeding, by pro- 

 moting tillering, 

 would delay matu- 

 rity. 



Figures 7, 8, and 9 

 illustrate this. These 

 diagrams were made 

 uj) from Table III. 



Fin. h.— Diagram showing the aijpearance of milo plants when spaced ' Ig^irc / snOWS me 

 12 inches apart: a and g. Till«rs;fi and j, main stiilk-s; b,c,f,f,h, spRcing of the plants 

 iiiid /, liranchfs. • , i i i j 



1 11 t h e plat not 

 thinned. Figiin-, S shows th(^ spacing of the plants and the tillers 

 and branches in the plat thinned to 12 inches. Figure 9 is made up 

 from figure 8; that is, it shows how the row would appenr if the tillers 

 and branches were reinoV(^d and jdaciid heiwccn lh<^ main stalks, 

 and it should be comj)ared with figun^ 7. Il will he seen that in 

 n-ulilv th<'i'c iin- ih-uiIn us ni!Ui\ stiilks ocf roA\' in I he Pi-inch plant,- 



