296 SCHOOL AND HOME GARDENS 
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) Publie 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 toa 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 
