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WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Plat 1.hills 13 inches apart.1 grain to the hill. 
Plat 2.hills 26 inches apart.2 grains to the hill. 
Plat 3.hills 52 inches apart.4 grains to the hill. 
The rows were four leet apart, and cultivation the same with 
all. The corn was ripe August 26, and gave the following 
yield per acre : 
Plat 1.48.27 bushels. 
Plat 2.45.00 bushels. 
Plat 3. •••• .39.36 bushels. 
The cost of cultivation of numbers one and two would be 
more than that of number four, as more of it must be done by 
hand, while the yield is greatly in favor of a less distance be¬ 
tween the hills, .and fewer stalks in a hill. 
Seed from Tips, Middle and Butts of Ears. —Three 
plats of equal area were planted May 6, respectively from seed 
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grown in the same manner in 1870. Distance apart 3x4 feet; 
three grains to the hill, of New England variety. Cultivation 
uniform in each. 
The results are shown in the following table: 
Seed from 
Time of 
ripening. 
Yield per 
acre. 
Avei. length 
of 25 longest 
ears. 
Average cir- 
cu infer, at 
butts of 25 
larg’tears. 
Butts. 
Aug. 21 
Aug. 21 
Aug. 21 
62.66 bu 
60.95 bu 
58.11 bu 
9 inch. 
9.1 inch 
9.2 inch. 
6£ inch. 
6 inch. 
5.9 inch. 
Middle. 
Tips . 
No difference was visible in time of ripening, but in the 
yield a perceptible difference was shown in favor of seed from 
the butts of the ear. The length of twenty-five of the longest 
ears, and the circumference at the butts of/twenty-five of the 
largest ears of the three plats, were taken. The results of 
these measurements are quite curious, indicating that the aver¬ 
age length of the ears was greatest in that raised from seed 
from the tips, while the average size around the butts was 
greatest in the product of seed from the butts of the ear. 'In 
each case, as well as in the yield per acre, the product of seed 
from the middle of the ear was a mean between the other two. 
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