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largest yield per acre. In reporting on this 

 test Director Redding says: "The season of 

 1890 may be considered "as about an average 

 one, and therefore the results of this experi- 

 ment may be taken as indicating that a dis- 

 tance of 5x4 (or 2,184 stalks to the acre) is not 

 too great for such land."* 



In South Carolina in experiments conducted 

 at Spartansburg, Columbia and Darlington on 

 distance apart of planting, the hills ranged from 

 5x3 to 6x3 feet, and the drills from five to six 

 feet apart. These experiments indicated that 



FIO. 27.— FARMERS' FAVOBITB ONE-HOBSB FRONT BANK CORN DRILL. 



"it made little difference whether the rows 

 were five feet or six feet apart or the checks 

 5x3 feet or 6x8 feet."t 



At the New York experiment station numer- 

 ous experiments with Waushakum corn, ex- 



* Bulletin No, 10, December, 1890, Georgia agricultural 

 experiment station. 



t Second annual report South Carolina experiment sta- 

 tionsj 1889, p. 252, 



