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50.7, and 49.3 bushels per acre. It is very evident that there 
may be a considerable variation in stand, fluctuating about 
three per hill, without a material effect upon yield. A stand 
ranging from about 2.5 to 3.0 plants per hill appears to be 
optimum for local varieties under Experiment Station condi- 
tions. This rate should be gradually reduced from the eastern 
toward the western part of the State. 
In these rates of planting tests, the corn had been planted 
thick and thinned so as to insure the actual stand of plants 
indicated. 
Table 66. — Coinparative yields of Hogue's Yellow Dent corn 
planted at the rates of 1,2,3, 1^, and 5 plants per hill. 19 H~ 
1917. 
Plants per hill 
Plants 
per acre 
Yield of grain per acre 
1914 
1915 
1916 
1917 
Average 
(1) 
(2) 
Bushels 
(3) 
Bushels 
(4) 
Bushels 
(5) 
Bushels 
(6) 
Bushels 
(V 
1 
3,556 
42.9 
57.6 
33.7 
28.6 
40.7 
2 
7,112 
48.2 
69.7 
35.2 
44.5 
49.4 
3 
10,668 
44.8 
79.8 
37.1 
50.0 
52.9 
4 
14,224 
36.1 
80.3 
33.1 
53.4 
50.7 
5 
17,780 
32.0 
80.6 
28.3 
56.3 
49.3 
RELATION OF UNIFORMITY OF STAND TO YIELD OF CORN 
During the five years 1915-1917 and 1920-1921, an investiga- 
tion was made to determine the effect of varied distribution of 
plants upon the yield of grain per acre. While the number of 
plants per acre was the same in all cases, the number of plants 
in adjacent hills differed. The methods of distribution com- 
pared were as follows: (1) All hills with uniformly three 
plants, (2) alternating hills with two and four plants, (3) 
alternating hills with one, three, and five plants, and (4) alter- 
nating hills with one, two, three, four, and five plants. 
The results given in Table 67 indicate that the three irregular 
distributions averaged 58 bushels per acre as compared with 59 
bushels for the uniformly three plants per hill rate. Alternat- 
ing hills with two and four plants yielded fully as well as did 
uniformly three plants per hill. Alternating hills of one, two. 
three, four, and five plants per hill yielded 0.4 bushel less, and 
