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Drill Planting. 
No. of kernels Yield, bushels. 
Drills. per ft. of drill. Good. Poor. Total. 
4 B. Waushakum corn..... 44 in. Ly 51+ 5. el 6 See Dae 
4 B4.1 Waushakum corn... 44 in. 4 14.1. d4<9= 29.0) 
Mill Planting. 
Fertilizer Yield, bushels. 
Hills. per acre. Good. Poor. Total. 
5 A. Waushakum corn..... heel ties 400 lbs. 5.8 11.0 16.8 
5 A. Waushakum corn..... ep eps ti 400 lbs. 7.0 11.6 18.6 
5 Bl. Waushakum corn..... 3x8 ft. 400 lbs. 48.7 12.8 61.5 
5 Bl. Waushakum corn.... 4x4 ft. 400 lbs. 35.9 95 38.4 
6 A. Waushakum corn..... xo. ih. 400 Ibs. 19.0 2.9 21.9 
1A38. Waushakum corn,.... 31-2x82-3ft. 400 lbs. 49.7 1.5 Bl..2 
C 8. Waushakum‘corn.... 3x2 ft. 800 lbs. 39.1 9.8 ae 
3.3 65. 
C 5. Waushakum corn.... 3x3 1-2 ft, 1600 lbs. | 62.2 
Arranging these figures under the number of seed planted per acre, 
taking only those plats which received the same amount of fertilizer, 
we have for a table: 
Kernels Yield, bushels. . 
per acre. Good. Poor. Total. 
GUE eso aay | 6,969 19-0 2.9 21-9 
mae eo tO. 8o0 35-9 2.5. 88-4 
LS Bek eees oes chery ote aaetemeiegs 11,880 51-5 1-6 53-1 
DRO vais «Hegre cst ERE 13. O04 49-7 1-5 51-2 
SUEDE ss beaks! s okie nets 19,360 48.7 12-8 61-5 
Sy es: 43.560 5-8". 110 
Ey PE ERSR Fa ot hous. 9. aes 2 Py a!) 7-0 11-6 18-6 
me bates aus inte Meee 47,520 14-1 14-9 29-9 
More fertilizer being used: 
Kernels Yield, bushels. 
per acre. Good. Poor,, Total. 
OS a Spal 19,360 39-1 9-8 48-9 
EON RAM Oe G tec tas 16,594 62-2 3°3 65-5 
The closeness of planting that seems advisable, perhaps differs with 
locality. In Massachusetts, where the annual rain-fall was 45 inches, 
and the application of fertilizer was large, my customary seeding was 
intended to be 29,869 kernels per acre, and the average crop was about 
80 bushels of shelled corn, with a maximum of 123 bushels of shelled 
corn. In adry season my planting seemed at times too close. The 
difference of a few inches of rain-fall would necessitate, it seems to 
me, wider spaces, as the corn crop evaporates much water during 
growth, and if the plants exceed in their demand for water more than 
the soil can supply, injury to the crop seems the result. From the 
observation of one year, I am disposed to believe, that, as close plant- 
ing cannot with advantage be practiced in Western New York as in 
Eastern Massachusetts; but the exceptional coolness of this past sum- 
mer perhaps destroys the value of these experiments for the purpose 
of generalizing for a season of more favorable temperatures. It is 
also perhaps possible that the closeness of planting should vary with 
