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kernels and thinning to four, a quantity that previous experience 
seemed to justify, but on account of the poor condition of the seed 
(which did not appear to the sight), or some unfavorable influence 
of the season, vegetation was oftentimes poor, and some hills even 
without thinning did not contain the four plants intended. Super- 
phosphate was used at the rate of 400 pounds per acre. 
The yield of the various plats in ear corn, as weighed at harvest, 
is expressed in the following tables : 
Actual yield. 
Noof Lbs. Noof Lbs. 
good sound poor unsound 
Plat. Flint Corns. ears. ear-corn. ears, corn. 
I. B 1. Upper, Early Canada.......... 625 201.6 22 Lat 
II. B 5. Lower, Early Canada.........: 490 154.5 95 12.0 
I. B 1. Lower, Rural Thoroughbred.... 3840 172.7195 40.4 
I. B 2. Upper, Golden Dew Drop...... 728 248.5 50 3.0 
I. B 2. Lower, Hight-rowed White ..... 417... 158.0 Ate ne 
I. B 3. Upper, Eight-rowed Yellow.... 645 259.5 46 5.0 
IL B 3. Upper, Eight-rowed Yellow .... 350 245.9 67 8.1 
eb 4. pper, Oranges 1s ees 5 ene 454 204.7 82 5.5 
Pei 5>"U pper, Hlesh:Oolon =. as see 500 243.0 37 T.4 
I. B 5. Lower, Compton’s Surprise..... 635 281.2 47 2.0 
ii. B 1. Upper, Compton’s Surprise ..... 518 233.2 49 7.2 
Dent Corns. 
I. B 3. Lower, Extra Early Adams..... 530 - 90.1 538 re eae 
Il. B 3. Upper, Extra Early Adams..... 650 151.0 22 1.4 
I. B 4. Lower, Improved Blount’s Prolific, 950 299.2 92 138.0 
I{. B 2. Upper, do * 685° 287.6 175 37.4 
TESB. Lower, Sixty-Day=ies ees 540 2438.1 34 4.8 
I B42 UpperGoldeni sn 337 “22728 SOOm eto an 
Il. B 4. Lower, Chester Co. Mammoth .. 295 218.4 112 48.4 
If. B 5. Upper, Queen of the Prairie...- 540 245.1 29 5.8 
If. B 2. Lower, Long Island White ..... 507 262.4 16 BG 
The corrected yield to 684 plants per plat makes the following 
table, and expresses bushels (of 80 pounds) to the acre. 
Corrected Corrected Actual 
yield per yield per yield per 
Flint Corns. plat, lbs. cre, bush. acre, bush. 
Harly Canada .....s0.ssse-oreae% 205.8 51.4 50.3 
BLY OANA |, 5's bee sais Reng 175.7 43.9 38.6 
Kural Thoroughbred «..4......:..- 179.3 44.8 43.2 
Proden- Dew Drop i. ss eciss hae 246.4 61.6 60.9 
Hight‘rowed «White... ...%/.4..%.. 162.0 40.5 39 5 
Hight-rowed Yellow .............. 269 .4 67.3 64.9 
Hight-rowed Yellow ...........*.- 356.3 89.0 61.5 
MANOR ie ne ae tint ncn pans 211.2 52.8 51.2 
Bias olor s, th herve ere aha Wks es ok 253.7 63 .4 60.7 
Compton's Surprisecse. va siceeay e+e 294.8 %3.7 | 70.3 
Compton’s Surprise ............... 263.1 65.7 58.3 
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