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late seeding comes second with 20.8 bushels, and the normal seeding 
takes last place with 18.3 bushels. The averages show that early 
seeding for Dawn kafir is best and that late seeding is better than 
the normal date. 
Manchu kaoliang produced the best yield in one year from the 
early seeding, in one year from the normal, and in four years from 
the late seeding. The late seeding ranks first with an average of 
20.1 bushels, the early seeding is second with 16.1 bushels, and the 
normal seeding is third with an average of only 14.3 bushels. This 
indicates that Manchu kaoliang should be seeded late if grown at all 
in this locality, which is true also of feterita. 
SPACING EXPERIMENTS. 
The spacing experiments were conducted with Dwarf milo (C. I. 
No. 332) and Dawn kafir (C. I. No. 340). The object of these experi- 
ments was to determine the reaction of these crops to the different 
environing conditions and to determine the distances between plants 
and rows that would give the best jaelds. These experiments were 
divided into two sections. The first section consisted of six plats 
each year during the 6-year period from 1914 to 1919, inclusive. 
The rows in these plats were 3^ feet apart (fig. 10), the plants being 
spaced at different distances, representing six rates of seeding each 
year. The second section also contained six plats each year. It 
differs from the first section in the spacing of the rows, which are 7 
feet apart (fig. 11), and of the plants, which are twice as thick in 
the row as in the first section, thus representing the same number 
of plants per acre. 
DWARF MILO. 
FIRST SECTION, ROWS 3j FEET APART. 
The agronomic data recorded on Dwarf milo in the first section of 
the spacing experiments are presented in Table X. This table shows 
that in 1914 the thickest stand was one plant to 3.7 inches of row 
space, and that the thinnest stand was one plant to 17.4 inches of 
row space, with the other four rates ranging from 4.3 to 11.7 inches 
of row space to the plant. In 1915 the row space to the plant ranged 
from 6 to 21.4 inches. In 1916 the thickest rate was one plant to 
4.2 inches of row space and the thinnest rate was one plant to 20.8 
inches. In 1917 the first five rates were practically identical with 
those of 1915, ranging from 6 inches of row space in the first or thick 
rate to 18 inches of row space to the plant in the fifth rate. The 
thin rate had a row space of 24 inches to the plant. In 1918 the row 
space ranged from 3 inches in the thick rate to 9.1 inches in the fourth 
rate and 12 and 12.8 inches in the fifth and sixth rates, respectively. 
In 1919 the germination was poor, making it impracticable to get the 
