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C 5. Same as C 3, except 1,600 pounds per acre of fertilizer was 
used, and the hills were 3x3 1-2 feet apart. The yield, 249 pounds 
good ear corn, and 13 1-2 pounds poor corn; ora total of 262 1-2 
pounds, 
C 6. Blount’s Prolific corn; 400 pounds of fertilizer per acre ; hills 
42x44 inches; six kernals in a hill, afterward thinned to four. Yield, 
299 pounds; all soft and unmerchantable, not ripening. 
C 7%. Karly Dent, and otherwise as in 6. Yield, 196 pounds; all 
soft. 
C 8. Sibley’s Pride of the North seed, otherwise as in 6 and 7. 
Yield, 111 1-4 pounds, merchantable, and 11 1-4 pounds unmerchant- - 
able ears. 
C 9. Chester County Mammoth seed used ; otherwise asin C 6, 7 
and 8. The yield was 141 pounds good ear-corn, and 34 1-4 pounds 
poor corn; ora_ total of 175 1-4 pounds. 
C10. Improved King Philip seed; otherwise as in C 6, 7, 8 9. 
The yield was 177 1-2 pounds good ear-corn, and 8 1-2 pounds poor 
corn; or a total of 186 pounds. 
© 11. Seed, a Dent corn, from I. Dillenbeck, Stanley N. Y.; other- 
wise the same as C 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. The yield, 337 1-2 pounds; all 
softand unmerchantable. 
C12. White Flint corn, and two white beans in each hill; other- 
wise as the preceding. The beans, mostly destroyed by the cut worm, 
The yield, 1 ponnd and11 ounces of beans,aud 209 pounds good ear- 
corn, 3 pounds of poor corn; or a total, corn, 212 pounds. 
C 13. White Flint corn as seed; otherwise as in C 12, but no beans. 
The yield, 199 1-2 pounds good ear-corn, and 3 1-4 pounds poor corn; 
or a total of 202 3-4 pounds. ! 
C 14. White Flint corn as seed; otherwise as in C13, but pumpkins 
planted throughout the plat. The yield, forty punkins, weighing 
119 pounds; 184 pounds good ear-corn, and 6 1-2 pounds poor corn 
or a total of 190 1-2 pounds. 
Series D was laid ont in half plats, of one-twentieth acre. The 
first ten, marked ‘‘ D 1,” were used to furnish corn for mutilation, 
destruction, etc., in order that we could have plants for experiment 
without having to interfere with our plants under study. 
D2. Minnesota Dent; seed from Minnesota; 400 pounds per acre 
of fertilizer used ; hills 42%43 inches; six kernels to a hill, afterward 
thinned tofour. The yield was 238 pounds good ear-corn, and 10 1-2 
pounds poor ear-corn; or a total of 248 1-2 pounds. 
D 3. Minnesota Dent; seed grown in New York; plat treated 
otherwise as in D 2. ‘The yield, 198 pounds good ear-corn, and 8 
pounds poor; or 206 pounds in all. The seed of D2 and D 3 from 
Milton Y. Jarvis, Canastota, N. Y. 
Two half plats were planted with pop-corn, in hills. The Egyptian 
Giant harvested 87 pounds of dry ear-corn, and the Rice Parching 
yielded 87 3-4 pounds of dry ear-corn on the twentieth acre. 
Corn ExpPERIMENT — INFLUENCE OF SEED. 
As plats 1 A and 2 B were planted with Waushakum corn, plat 
2 A with Willow Brook, and plat 1 B with Elmira seed, all under cor- 
responding conditions, we may arrange our results as below in bushels 
of shelled corn : . 
