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Table 13. — Results of Peanut Spacing Tests, Upper Coastal Plain StatioNi 

 Rocky Mount, North Carolina' 



» Conducted during seasons of 1929-1931 and 1936-1937. 



In tests at Rocky Mount in 1943 and 1944 (table 14) best yields were 

 produced from thick spacing of both North Carolina 31 and Spanish 2B 

 varieties. Both varieties yielded most when spaced 4 inches apart in the 

 row with rows 18 inches wide. In a test conducted in 1947 (table 15), the 

 highest yields from no potash were obtained from hills 4.5 inches apart 

 in rows 18 inches wide. In the case of the potash treatment spacing 4.5 

 and 9 inches between hills in 18-inch rows and 4.5 inches between hills in 

 27-inch rows produced approximately the same yields. 



South Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station Results. Spacing- 

 test results at the Pee Dee Station, Florence (3) showed that the highest 

 yields were produced where Spanish peanuts were spaced very close in 

 the row, the best yields of nuts being obtained from plants spaced 3 inches 

 apart in 2.5-foot rows. Table 16 records the average results obtained 

 from nuts and forage. 



TaUe 14. — Average Yields of Peant^ts at Different -Spacings in Tests at 

 Upper Coastal Plain Station, Rocky Mount, North Carolina, 1943 and 1944 



