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hat the equivalence of crop between D. two and D. fou was nradacon 
‘ by the difference in planting. 
We have for other trials upon twentieth acre plats : 
Yield sound corn. 
K. 4. Hills 2.x 2 feet, 4 kernels 1 in a ALL crta user nse 113 lbs. 15 1-2 ozs. 
EMER. X QIN OL Gy Nee ee AN Lg ally AG FS 2 : 
HK. 6. Drills, 9 rows, 1 kernel each aa DSO al eeu LTS A eae 
Pe Dele cL es Hae Gar an ee eae Lae ee IES Tei ee 
CG STD LT ae a Coil Ge dat Pt a ms 0s iiekae A 0 ‘s 
ewes Oy 66) QB 88 RSD ah es eu eee DON eS bad 
re ee Duis eR oe 8 GE Ae Sanit Aaa ye VES WANG a UAW Rates. 
If we calculate the number of hills per acre of four kernels each, we 
have for a table— 
Yield. 
D. 3. 1700 hills per acre, or 6800 kernels Paes nea Neel 30.8 bush. 
Be l0r 3420, LaGOulues cea aetna cn Ale 49.0 
HK. 12. 3420 7 i PACSUN cmctote sherata a hack AP Bn 
D. 4. 6840 es $f AD OW ele Paria Clea ee anh aate AD eee 
K. 4. 10880 rs “ AOR Hi cee Aes aU anger ae 28.79.) 788 
So far as these trials indicate we may believe that three and one- 
half by three and one-half feet is the proper distance for the kind of 
corn we used, although D. four with half the distance gives equal - 
results. 
The maize plant is, however, a great evaporator of water, and in a 
dry season close planting may hence he very injurious. In order to 
illustrate this we bring together equivalent trials of 1882, a dry season, 
with those of 1883, a wet season : 
Yield per acre 
1882. 1883. 
Hills 2x 2 feet,4 kernels to a hill............ % bush. 28.5 bush. 
“8 1-233 2-3 feet, 4 kernels'to a'hill ....° 49.7% 49.5 < 
Taking kernels planted per acre, in very near equivalents, we have: 
Yield per acre. 
Kernels planted. 1882. 1883. 
RAIL) aioe km. ocd ella vig wha tithe atbiete oe ote 19 bush. 30 bush. 
EPRI AOU No Ui igre te, Sigg ie wlShe os pie hae me DO AnS AQ bi§s 
SEL IC) rctie wei ods) Mualaicota tess ew cle ashe Avecece ; Biche Out oa 
WEEDS. 
The influence of weeds in the growing crop of corn seems, pro- 
-ductive of injury, not only from their uSe of the food supply of the 
soil which might otherwise be appropriated by the maize plant, but 
as well from the shading of the ground and the consequent lower- 
ing of temperatures. We had one plat, E. eleven, upon which the 
Waushakum corn was planted and left to shift for itself, The weeds 
soon covered the ground, and the corn attained but little growth, and 
appeared yellowish i in foliage throughout the season. ‘Ihe yield of the. 
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