52 [ ASSEMBLY 
The wet season was perhaps the cause of the very shallow planting 
doing so well. A surprising observation was that the plantings from 
three to eight inches all vegetated alike on the same day. Deep plant- 
ing caused the corn plant to stand no firmer in the soil than was the 
case with the shallow planted. 
CULTIVATION EXPERIMENTS. 
Yield calculated to acre. Highty pounds ear-corn to one bushel 
shelled corn. Bowker’s hill and drill phosphate used in the quanti- 
ties noted. 




Waushakum Corn. Willow Brook Corn. 
Plat 1 A. Plat 2 A. 
Cultivated. Cultivated. 
Yield in bushels. Yield in bushels. 
Good. Poor. Total. Good. Poor. Total. 
Wa fortuizer VT Ou See oy 49-9 -8 50-7 48-6 2-2 50-8 
200 pounds fertilizer ...... 45-0 2-4 47-4 33-9 6-7 40-6 
400 pounds fertilizer .. ... 49-7 1-5 51-2 52-7 2-3 55-0 
800 ponnds fertilizer ...... 56-9 -7 57-6 47-9 2-4 50-3 
1,600 pounds fertilizer..... 56-7 1-0 57-7 47-5 3-7 51-2 
51-6 1-2 52-9 46-1 3-4 49-5 
Uncultivated. Uncultivated. 
é Good. Poor. Total. Good. Poor. Total. 
MO TEPlilizer™.:, — 2 siete S 54-7 *8 55-5 38-6 6-5 45-1 
200 pounds fertilizer ...... 53-8 3-5 57-3 47-3. 3-9 51-2 
400 pounds fertilizer ...... 55-5 2-9 58-4 48-7 3-6 52-3 
800 pounds fertilizer ...... 58:5 1-2 59-7 48.7, 4.3. ae 
1,600 pounds fertilizer..... oteY + TS BB 50-7 2-2 52-9 
56-0 1-8 57-8 46-8 4-1 50-9 
Elmira Corn. Waushakum Gora. 
Plat 1 B. Plat 2 B. 
Cultivated. Cultivated. 
Good. Poor. Total. Good. Poor. Total. 
Nii PETUUizer, 5:5 aerate Rees 51-9 1-4 53-3 52-0 1-2 53-2 
200 pounds fertilizer ...... 53:2 1-0 54-2 d1-8 1:4 53-2 
400 pounds fertilizer .. ... 58-3 -6 58-9 51-6 1-6 53-2 
800 pounds fertilizer ...... 51-9 -9 52-8 56-1 +4 56-5 
1,600 pounds fertilizer .... 63.7 -6 64-3 55:3 +7 56-0 
55-8 -9 56-7 53-3 1-0 54-4 
Uncultivated. Uncultivated. 
Good. Poor. Total. Good. Poor. Total. 
No fertilizer. ..i00 J0.0.... 34-4. 3-4 37-8 45-2 1-0 46-2 
200 pounds fertilizer ...... 26-4 3-9 30-3 40-6 1-9 42-5 
400 pounds fertilizer ...... Q2q-% = 8-3 381-0 44-0 1-5 45-5 
800 pounds fertilizer ...... 58-4 1-0 59-4 49-4. -% 50-1 
1,600 pounds fertilizer .... 59-7 -Y 60-4 55-3)” Se phen 


41-3 2-4 43- 46-9 1-0 47-9 
