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care that has been exercised for years past to guard against hybridiza- 
tion, insuring a seed corn of as uniform a character as can at present 
be obtained. 
3. Both plats showed a remarkable uniformity of appearance as be- 
tween their several rows, thus indicating uniformity of character in 
ae soil upon which the seed was planted. 
; There was no difference apparent in the maturity of the various 
p sn 
5. ‘he ears were husked by ourselves and each plant’s sada laid 
bi itself upon the ground at the foot of the stalk which bore the crop, 
thus insuring against mistake in the counting, measuring and weigh- 
ing. 
6. Three separate observers carefully went over each row and veri- 
fied each other’s conclusions, and thus absolute agreement in observa- 
tions was secured on the spot. 
Asa matter of interest we present a table of the results for the 
eight rows, calculated to the 100 plants, in order that the variations 
under these favorable conditions of seed and soil may become promi- 
nent, and thus indicate in a measure the character of the seed and 
soil. 
Unmanured. Manured. 
Row. 
| pounds. pounds, 
1. Yield of merchantable ear corn per 100 aa 41 46 
2. see 35 42 
3. ae = Ae wos Gee OO 48 
4, ee ae as + S. scre eee 43 
5. os * cvatetgiel ip eO 42 
6. a ae “ Adee ee ao 42 
hs “f i ty Rata ae woke: 41 
8. oP ag os Ree 46 
If we should calculate these rows to the acre the result would be a 
variation of about 10 bushels of 75 pounds for the unmanured rows, 
and 11 bushels for the manured rows per calculated acre, or but 14 
1-3 and 13 1-4 per cent. 
As a corollary to this presentation it will be observed that the 400 
pounds of fertilizer used added but at the rate of 15 bushels of mer- 
chantable crop, while the use of tip kernels added at the rate of 31 
bushels to the unmanured, and 11 bushels to the manured crop. It 
will also be observed that the outer rows of each plat are superior to 
the inner rows, but that this superiority does not hold with the second 
rows, 
INTERVALS FOR PLANTING. 
The plats of Waushakum corn, designed to test the influence of 
close or wide intervals, much or little seed per hill, etc., in planting, 
at harvest offered the following figures, calculated per acre, allowing 
80 pounds ear-corn to the bushel of shelled corn: 
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