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New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 83 
thick seeding, as already shown in series 1 and 2. We can not. 
say, however, that a greater yield of dry matter would have been 
secured with four or six kernels to the foot. 
Like results have been obtained with planting amber cane for 
forage, as shown below: 


Forage - Water Dry matter 
per acre. per acre. per acre. 
: ; Tons. Tons. “Tons. 
Early Amber Cane, drills 44inches................. 23.84 20.33 
Early Amber Cane, drills 44inches................. 23.75 20.15 3.60 
Early Amber Cane, drills 22 inches................. 27.41 23.18 4,23 
Early Amber Cane, drills 22 inches................. 25.20 21.02 4,18 
In dry matter we see a decided increase by thicker seeding and 
we have confirmed the general results obtained with corn. 
As these plats growing amber cane were in comparison with 
the corn plats in 1885, we see the relative yield of corn and amber 
cane as forage crops; corn averaging 3.55 tons of dry matter per 
acre and amber cane 3.88 tons. There seems to be no question 
- then but what the greatest amount of green forage and dry 
matter has been produced at this Station by thick seeding. 
Whether by thin seeding, as in the case of hill and drill trials, a 
ereater yield would have been secured may be questioned. 
‘Under what conditions the greatest amount of digestible matter 
would be secured remains for further investigation. 
The next point we come to consider is, “ What is the amount 
of increase in the maize plant as it approaches maturity?” As a 
first step in this direction we can have no better data than is 
found in the experiment by Dr. Babcock.* 
In a plat of flint corn, Waushakum corn, Babcock selected 
_ thirty stalks on August eighteenth, each bearing two ears and as 
* 
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much alike in general appearance as could be determined by a 
superficial examination. At this date the kernels of corn were 
just beginning to swell, and beginning at this date analyses were 
made at intervals of one week to September twenty-third. Five 
stalks were selected at each cutting and measurements, analyses, 
etc., made of each individual stalk. 
* Second Annual Report, 1883, p. 153. 
