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~The heaviest yield attained in any one case was at the rate of 
27.41 tons green forage per acre for sorghum ; and 27.37 tons green 
forage per acre for the Orange flint corn. 
Carefully collected samples from each plat were subjected to an- 
alysis, for their water contents, with the following result :— 
Plat. Per cent. Date of Plat. Per cent. Date of . 
water. harvesting. water. harvesting. 
1 86.83 Aug. 13 8 81.76 mice Lo 
2 85.87 Aue "11 9 82.97 ug. LD 
3 84.09 Aug. 10 19 84.14 Aug. 19 
4 81.95 Aug. 11 12 85.29 Sept. 3 
5 69.28 Aug. 11 13 84, 84 Sept. 3 
6 70.74 Aug. 12 14 84.58 Sept. 4 
vi 84.36 Aug. 12 15 $3.43 Sept. 5 
These determinations need not be interpreted very closely, as 
many of the samples were collected necessarily during moist if not 
rainy weather. Whatever value they possess is to afford a clue to 
the dry matter harvested from each plat. 
Last year our report was rather favorable towards pop corn as a 
forage crop ; this year the same line of reasoning would lead us to 
recommend the flint corn. ‘The different style of the season, or the 
different number of plants which grew on our plats may account for 
the discrepancy. Very probably there is not enough difference be- 
tween our forage corns to offset differences brought about through 
fertilization and distance of planting. It is within possibility that 
the same variety of corn would not be equally recommendable for 
use on a poor farm and a good farm. 
CoRN. 
Duplicates. 
For the purpose of testing how near duplicates could be obtained, 
plats E. 12 to 15 were selected, fertilized alike with 400 lbs. phos- 
phate per acre, planted with the same stock of Waushakum corn, in 
hills 42x44 in. apart, and four plants to the hill, and were carefully 
tended alike, and harvested at the same time. ‘The figures resulting 
appear in the following table : 
Yield. 
Plat. No. of No. of ears. Weight of ears. Yield per acre. 
plants. Good, Poor. Good, lbs. Poor, lbs. Bushels. 
Py l2 9.637 715 88 289.2 10.0 12.3 
EK. 13 636 745 152 297.2 14.5 74.3 
H.14 640 750 147 290.0 12.0 72.5 
E. 15 641 761 Mid: 294.7 10.0 13.7 
We have here a variation of 46 ears, and 8 lbs. per plat, or 2 bush- 
els per acre, a very close result. 
