THICK SEEDING OF MILO IN THE SAN ANTONIO REGION. 
IS 
Tablk VI. Plants and heads of milo in rows differently spaced at the San Antonio 
Experiment Farm in 1918. 
Spacing. 
Number per row. 
Plants. 
Heads. 
895 
237 
1,169 
1,034 
658 
135 
Table VI shows that while the number of plants per row in the 
unthinned rows exceeded by 658 that of the rows in which the plants 
were 12 inches apart, the number of heads per row differed by only 
135. This difference 
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If! 
• f 
f 9 
9 9 
9 f 
9t 
Fig. 
7. — Diagram showing the appearance of milo plants when 
spaced closely together. 
in the number of 
heads per row is seen 
to be very slight when 
it is considered that 
the rows were 264 feet 
long. Consequently, 
when seeds are so 
placed as to have the 
plants 6, 8, or 12 
inches apart in the 
row, with the idea 
that less moisture will 
be required to mature the crop, the grower may actually obtain as 
many heads per row as would result from thicker seeding, and he 
may find that the moisture requirement has not been reduced at 
all. Furthermore, the 
thin seeding, by pro- 
moting tillering, 
would delay matu- 
rity. 
Figures 7, 8, and 9 
illustrate this. These 
diagrams were made 
up from Table III. 
Figure 7 shows the 
spacing of the plants 
in the plat not 
thinned. Figure 8 shows the spacing of the plants and the tillers 
and branches in the plat thinned to 12 inches. Figure 9 is made up 
from figure 8; that is, it shows how the row would appear if the tillers 
and branches were removed and placed between the main stalks, 
and it should be compared with figure 7. It will be seen that in 
reality there are nearly as many stalks per row in the 12-inch plant- 
Fig. 8.— Diagram showing the appearance of milo plants when spaced 
12 inches apart: a and g, Tillers; d and ;', main stalks; b, c, e,f, Ji, 
and i, branches. 
