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age that corn will undergo will depend greatly on the season, 
and will be much less in as dry a year as the past, than in a 
wet year. 
To ascertain the actual amount of shrinkage, 100 pounds 
(as weighed when drawn from the field) of several of the 
above varieties, have been stored away. When they are thor. 
oughly dry they will be again weighed, and the weight of shel¬ 
led corn taken as the true per cent, of corn for the past year. 
A repetition of this experiment for several years will give the 
average per cent, of shelled corn to corn in the ear as weighed 
at the time of husking. 
Influence of time of Saving Seed.— This experiment 
began in 1869, by selecting the earliest ripening ears from a 
field of Dutton corn, and at the time of husking, selecting 
seed in the ordinary manner of saving seed corn. Adjacent 
plats were planted in 1870 with seed saved by each method, 
and seed was again saved as before, from the product of seed 
saved by the same method. The seed of the second year 
was planted in two adjacent plats, May 6, 1870 ; distance 
apart three by four feet, three grains to a hill, giving the fol- 
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lowing results: 
From Seed Saved. 
/ ‘ 
Time of 
ripening. 
Yield 
per acre. 
At time of huskinoc. 
Aug. 14 
Aug. 10 
42.54 bu. 
37.51 bu. 
From first ripe ears. 
, — 
There is here a difference of four days in the time of ripen- 
ing in favor of the seed of first ripe ears, but a difference in 
the yield of five bushels per acre in favor of the product of 
later ripening ears. The general appearance of the latter was 
also better. 
EXPERIMENTS WITH EQUAL AMOUNTS OF SEED AT DIFFER¬ 
ENT DISTANCES APART. 
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Equal areas were planted April 28, to Sanford corn, as fol¬ 
lows : 
