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Yield per plat. Yield per 
Sound corn. Unsound corn. acre. 
No. of No. Sound corn, 
Plat. ears. Ibs. ears. lbs. bush. 
III. A upper, kept hoed .. ....... ... 686 221.5 70 4.8 50.4 
lower, mulched June 14........ 636 234.6 101 8.3 58.6 
IV. A upper, lettuce as weed, July 1... 567 161.2 73 5.0 40.3 
lower, mulched July 1......... 517 175.8 89 6.5 43.9 
This trial may be of interest as a curious attempt, but we fail to 
make any deductions from it. Perhaps future trials may throw 
more light. One thing seems evident. The mulching delayed 
ripening, and probably the extra amount of water.at harvest makes 
the crop from the mulched portions seem slightly larger than they 
should be in the comparison. As the plants that vegetated and 
were left to form crop were not counted, through mistake, we have 
no means of correcting these figures to uniformly seeded plats. 
Corn, THickness oF PLANTING. 
The trial was made with Waushakum corn, the hills 42x44 inches 
apart, 400 lbs. superphosphate used per acre. The actual yields, 
and the yields corrected to a full stand per plat, read as follows: 
Per plat. Per plat. Bush. per acre. 
Actual yield. Corrected yield. Corrected 
Plat. . Lbs. Lbs. yield. 
V. A upper, 1 plant toa hill........ 179.6 181.7 45.4 
VI. A upper, 2 plants toa hill ....... 190.4 193.8 48.4 
V. A lower, 3 plants toa hill........ 237.0 243.1 60.7 
VI. A lower 4 plants toa hill........ 205.1 237.7 59.4 
We thus have indicated that three stalks to the hill gives the best 
results. We however can express additional facts from our data, as 
below for ear corn: | : 
Wt. per Wt. per Wt. per 
No. of ears. No. ofears ear sound. hill plant 
Sound Uns’nd per plant corn. s. corn. aga corn. 
s. 
corn. corn. sound corn. ozs. Ibs. 
V. A upper, 1 plant per hill... 500 151 2.99 5.747 1.06 1.06 
VI. A upper, 2 plants per hill... 540 57 1.60 5.641 1.11 56 
V.A lower, 3 plants perhill... 659 83 1.32 5.754 1.38 AT 
VI. A lower, 4 plants per hil]... 60Y 69 1.038 5.388 1.20 130 
The influence of the thin planting upon the product per plant is 
_ very manifest, while the influence upon the weight of the ear is not 
very plainly shown; thinning the planting does not seem to reduce 
the number of unsound ears, but it does increase the number of 
ears borne to the plant, probably to a certain extent through the 
increase of suckers. 7 
Foracr Orops. 
The trials of forage crops were with Early Amber cane, Maize 
and Soja bean. mre 
The Soja bean gave very unsatisfactory results, furnishing neither 
sufficient forage for cutting nor seed. The cool season of last year 
