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dred and fifty-five • bushels shelled corn, or two hun- 

 dred and thirty-nine bushels crib cured corn. 



Late in February one thousand bushels stable 

 manure and five hundred pounds each of manipulated 

 guano, cottonseed meal and kainit were broadcasted on 

 the acre and then plowed under. Following the plow 

 six hundred bushels whole cottonseed were strewn in 

 the furrows. A subsoil plow was run through a depth 

 of twelve inches. The land was well harrowed and the 

 rows planted alternately March 2, three and six feet 

 apart. An improved strain of the common Gourd 

 variety of southern white dent corn was planted, five 

 or six kernels being dropped to each foot of the row. 

 It was planted in the rows five inches deep but covered 

 only one inch. At the first hoeing the plants were 

 thinned to one stalk every five or six inches, the miss- 

 ing spots replanted. On April 20 the six-foot spaces 

 were plowed and a mixture composed of two hundred 

 pounds each guano, kainit, cottonseed meal, acid phos- 

 phate and bone was applied and hoed in. On May 

 15 the three-foot spaces were plowed, three hundred 

 pounds nitrate soda sown and worked in. On May 25 

 two hundred pounds guano were applied in the wide 

 spaces. Another application of five hundred pounds 

 guano, cottonseed meal and kainit was put on June 8, 

 and one hundred pounds nitrate soda June 11. The 

 crop was harvested November 25, before several repu- 

 table witnesses. It yielded seventeen thousand four 

 hundred and seven pounds of corn in the ear, of which 

 one hundred and forty pounds was soft corn. Several 

 tests showed that one hundred pounds ear corn yielded 

 eighty-two pounds shelled corn, which made the yield 

 two hundred and fifty-four bushels forty-nine pounds 

 of shelled corn at fifty-six pounds to the bushel, which, 

 kiln-dried, to contain only ten per cent water, would 

 contain two hundred and thirty-nine bushels. 



