Farm Notes. 
25 
It will be noted that as the number of stalks in a hill in¬ 
creases, the size of each stalkdiminishes, but the increase in 
number much more than overbalances the decrease in size 
and the weight of the hill is greater the larger the number 
of stalks. A hill containing six stalks weighs much more 
than a hill of one stalk, but instead of weighing six times as 
much, it weighs a little more than three times as much. 
The same principle is seen the second year when a 
larger number of hills was weighed from a field having 
rather less than an average crop in size. 
No. of Stalks Per 
Hill 
No. of Hills 
containing 
this No. of 
Stalks 
Per Cent of 
Total No. of 
Hills 
Total Weight 
Average 
Weight Per 
Hill 
Average 
Weight Per 
Stalk 
0 
1C7 
14 
0 
0 
0 
1 
58 
7 
97 
1.7 
1.70 
O 
130 
16 
339 
3 
1.50 
3 
271 
35 
1053 
3.9 
1.30 
4 
162 
21 
687 
4.2 
1.05 
5 
46 
6 
243 
5.3 
1.06 
6 
10 
1 
62 
6.3 
1.05 
Average and Total, 
784 
100 
2533 
3.5 
1.22 
Omitting missing 
hills . 
677 
86 
2533 
4.1 
1.22 
There is no indication in the figures of either year as 
given in this form that the increase could not go on indefi¬ 
nitely. The larger the number of stalks the larger the 
weight of the hill seems to be the rule. But there really is 
a limit. If each hill was by itself -with plenty of space on all 
sides,the above rule would be true. When, however, the 
hills are only three feet apart, as was the case in these 
fields, there is room for only a certain number of stalks to 
grow and develop on a given area. The addition of one 
more plant to a hill not only decreases the size of the other 
plants in that hill, but it also decreases the size of each of 
the four hills surrounding it. If these several losses amount 
to more than the weight of the extra plant, then its presence 
in the field is a positive loss. For each field there is such a 
point and when that point is reached is the number of stalks 
per hill that gives the largest yield of crop per acre. To 
learn what this number is, the number of stalks in the four 
hills next to each hill was then counted and the weight of 
the hill recorded. Combining these data and interpolating 
to get even numbers, gives the results below; 
