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stated. A determination of the water in the ear corn shows that this 
is an ample allowance. Thus, the corn taken from the pile as husked 
gave 27.3 pounds of water to the 100 pounds ofear corn. Calculating 
from the ear corn as husked to the air-dry corn, containing fourteen per 
cent of water, we find that the husked corn furnished 72.45 per cent 
of air-dry corn, or eighty pounds of ear corn would shell out fifty-eight 
pounds of shelled corn. 
The corn was planted upon plats of one-tenth acre and one-twentieth 
acre area, the size in every case being 2 x 4 rods or 2 x 8 rods, the 
length being north and south. The series count from north to south, 
the numbers from west to east. The following are particulars for each 
plat, from which the tabulated results elsewhere given are calculated : 
The fertilizer used, Bowker’s hill and drill phosphate. 
Series 1 A planted with Waushakum corn, hills 42 x 44 inches, 
six kernels in a hill thinned to four. ‘he upper half left uncultivated, 
the lower half cultivated in the ordinary manner. The fertilizing per 
acre and actual yield as below: 




Har corn. 
Fertilizer. Good. Poor. Total. 
a 0 Uncultivated half 1-20 a. 219 lbs. 3 1-4 lbs. 222 1-4 lbs. 
Cultivated half as 199°1-2 lbs. 8 1-4 Ibs. 202 3-4 lbs. 
2. 200 lbs. Uncultivated half es 215 14 lbs.2) 14 Ibs. 9929 1-4 lbs. 
; Cultivated half ss 180 lbs. Geko: Ths: 189 1-2 lbs. 
3. 400 lbs. Uncultivated half ne 222 Ibs. 11 8-4 lbs. 233 3-4 lbs. 
Cultivated half ae 199 lbs. 6 lbs. 205 lbs. 
4, 8001lbs. Uncultivated half “s 934 lbs. 5 lbs. 239 lbs. 
Cultivated half $§ 227 1-4 lbs. 3 Ibs. 230 1-2 lbs. 
5. 1600 lbs. Uncultivated half ae 931 lbs. 3 lbs. 224. lbs. 
Cultivated half ue 907 hoy 4 lbs. 231 lbs. 
Total for half acre ......:.... aici og Ok ant talb4e nilbaatGee4aa Ibs. 
2216 3-4 lbs. 
Series 2 A was planted with corn from Willow Brook, New York, 
described to us as bearing the local name of ‘Turners—-somewhat 
mixed—raised by one man for twenty-two years, seventeen years on 
the same place. Yield last year twenty bushels per acre, as estimated. 
The plats planted and treated as series 1 A. The figures as below: 
Har corn, 



Fertilizer. Good. Poor. Total. 
1. 2001bs. Uncultivated half 1-20a -189 1-4: Ibs. ~~ 15 1-2-Ibs. 204 3-4 Ibs. 
Cultivated half : 135 1-2 lbs. 26 3-4 lbs. 162 1-4 lbs. 
2. 400]lbs. Uncultivated half *‘ 195 lbs. 141-2 lbs 209 1-2 lbs. 
Cultivated half so 911 lbs. 9 1-4 lbs 220 1-4 lbs. 
3. 800 lbs. Uncultivated half ‘ 194 lbs? 2e2 "1-3 Ibs 212 1-2 lbs. 
Cultivated half ag 191 1-2 lbs. 9 3-4 lbs 201 1-4 lbs, 
4. 1600 lbs. Uncultivated half Oe 203 lbs. 8 8-4 lbs. 211 3-4 lbs. 
Cultivated half ee 190 sa 15 lbs. 205 lbs. 
5. 0 lbs. Uncultivated half oo 154 lbs. 26 1-4 lbs. 180.1-4 Ibs, 
Cultivated half és 194 1-2 lbs. 9 lbs 203 1-2 lbs. 
RE TOTAAL (AOTC cn as ese'e ac ad ePa aces ce athe « 1858 3-4 lbs. 152 1-4 Ibs. 2011 lbs. 
Series 1 B was planted with corn from Elmira, the seed being 
selected from an unprolific crop. The details of planting, culture, 
etc., being as in series 1 A and 2 A. ‘The figures are as below : 
