258 REPORT OF THE FARM SUPERINTENDENT OF THE 
The plats were cultivated both ways and hand hoed June four- 
teenth. They were cultivated both ways but not hand hoed July 
thirteenth. Weeds were cleaned out by hand August sixteenth. 
Five kernels of Waushakum corn were planted in each hill, and 
200 hills per plat. Notwithstanding the corn was not thinned as 
last year, there was a less and very irregular stand on the whole, 
Plats D 15, 16, and E15, were the only ones on which the stand 
was greater than in 1888, and on only one was it above four stalks 
per hill. On one plat, F 21, the stand was below three stalks per 
hill. 
September nineteenth the corn was cut and stood in shock until 
October eight, nine and ten, when it was weighed and husked. 
Roaming fowls attacked the corn after it began to ripen and 
continued pilfering from it until all was removed from the field. 
In sorting, the pecked ears and cobs, were counted and weighed 
separately. The ears of “sound” and “soft” corn being counted, 
and weighed, gave data for supplying, by calculation, the weight 
of corn lost. These amounts have been included in “total crop,” 
and “sound corn” columns of the following table : 
