Farm Notes. 
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It is evident here that the largest crop is one that has 
four stalks in each hill, since the weights with the different 
numbers of stalks give: 
5 stalks per hill give a crop 
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Since this field gives a smaller crop per acre from 
smaller stalks, and yet gives a larger return from four 
stalks in a hill than from five stalks, it cannot be said that it 
is always better to have less stalks in a hill, the larger the 
variety of corn. 
Since these two crops represent a good share of the 
crops of northern Colorado, it can be said that where corn 
is raised for fodder four or five stalks in a hill, if the hills 
are three feet apart each way, gives the largest crop per 
acre. 
E—MISSING HILLS IN A CORN FIELD. 
One of the largest sources of loss in the cornfield is 
hills without any stalks. In the field of corn grown the first 
year, it was thought that there were not enough hills miss¬ 
ing to pay for replanting, but when harvest came, the count 
showed 24 per cent missing or a loss in this field of about 
two and half tons of fodder corn, or much more than 
enough to have paid for the replanting. 
In figuring the loss from a missing hill, two items have 
to be taken into account, the loss from the hill itself and 
the gain to the hills around it. 
The first is easily told by taking the average weight of 
the hills which are surrounded by four full hills. The 
second is not so easy to ascertain. One way of estimating 
is to get the average weight of those hills that are next to 
a missing hill and compare this weight with the weight 
where the hills are full. 
In the field the first year there were 114 hills which had 
a missing hill on one side of them, with an average weight 
6.8 pounds. The 122 hills that were surrounded by complete 
hills average 6.0 pounds. 'This indicates an average gain of 
0.8 pounds to each of the four hills surrounding a missing 
hill or a total gain of 3.2 pounds. But since the average 
weight of the hill in this field was 6.0 pounds, each hill that 
was missing meant a loss of 6.00 pounds and a gain of 3.2- 
of 9.7 tons per acre 
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