100 _ [AssEMBLY 
forty-four inches apart, and 200 pounds of superphosphate applied 
per acre. Series | A was cultivated both ways, and Series II] A 
had the weeds removed by light hoeing. The figures of the plats 
are as below, one column expressing correction to an equal number 
of hills: 


Cultivated plats. Not cultivated plats, 
Actual Corrected Actual Corrected 
yield, yield, yield, yield, 
Lbs. Lbs. . Lbs. Lbs. 
ba Bee 430.5 AT1.4 TT A1.... 408.4 463.2 
BENE ie ss 49774 480.0 2.... 446.3 523.1 
Daw eis ices 419.9 486.3 de 465.8 546.3 
cites ace 471.8 544.7 4.. 451.5 511.6 
SASHES 457.1 553.5 Do 456.6 526.6 
Total for dacre. 2206.7 2535.9 2298.6 2570.8 
These plats have been in corn for now three years. The com- 
parison of the yields for the three years, the figures being corrected 
for uniformity, read : 
Corrected yield for the various years: half acres. 
1882. 1883. 1884. 1882. 1883. 1884. 
Lbs. Lbs. Lbs. Lbs. Lbs. Lbs. 
SeriesI A.. 2154 2582 2535 SeriesIITA.. 1859 2154 92570 
These figures, however we can study them, do not indicate any 
advantage of cultivation upon these plats, as is more plainly seen by 
the recapitulation below: 
Yield in bushels per acre. 
Previous yields. 
1884. 1882. 1883. 
Cultivated plats .......... LS Ay ee i 63.3 53.8 63.3 
Mremectitivated plats :: 2.0 .aia/es ae eee 64.2 46.4 53.8 
Curiously enough, during three years’ trial we have found no eyi- 
dence strongly in favor of cultivation. 
/ 
WereEpING oF Corn. 
In order to determine whether weeds injured corn by shading the 
ground, two series of plats were mulched with straw, the LI A 
series having one plat hoed, another plat mulched with straw on 
June 14 after a thorough hoeing. In series LV A one plat had let- 
tuce seed broad-casted over the surface on July 1, while another 
plat was mulched with straw. Both series had the hills 42x44 
inches apart and received superphosphate at the rate of 400 lbs. per 
acre. The variety, Waushakum Flint. The actual yields in ear 
corn and the calculated yields in bushels per acre are expressed in 
the table following: , 
ea ©? By, a % 
Nn by = ey BY 
6 eee 
Buemas % Re 

