260 REPORT OF THE FARM SUPERINTENDENT OF THE 
Field notes this year, as last, testify to the stockiness and 
general thrift of plants where nitrogen as nitrate, or sulphate, has 
been applied. The amounts applied in most cases produced an 
increase in the ratio of stalks to corn, but had an equal, if not 
greater effect on the vield of sound corn. 
Neither potash nor phosphoric acid have exerted a marked 
influence on the crop. 
The application of plaster fing not been followed by any increase 
of crop above the general average. 
Plat F 20, to which muck was applied, has this year fallen back 
far below the general average. 
Nitrogen alone has increased the crop. 
Nitrogen with either potash or phosphoric acid has increased 
the crop. 
Nitrogen with both potash and phosphoric acid has increased 
the crop. 
Corn has been selected from each plat for seed on the plat where 
it grew, in order that the full cumulative effect of the fertilizer may 
be felt. 
CORN IN HILLS, DRILLS AND BROADCAST. 
An experiment was undertaken covering eighteen one-twentieth 
acre plats, to add something to the general fund of knowledge on 
the question, shall we plant our corn for the crop of ears, for 
fodder or for the silo, in hills, in drills or broadcast ? 
It has been pretty well demonstrated that for the best fodder or 
for ensilage, the plants must be allowed to come to full develop- 
ment and become nearly, if not quite, mature in order to produce 
the most effective crop. In order to become fully developed, 
every plant must have a certain amount of room and free access 
of light and air, large varieties more than small growing ones, but 
just how much space, depends largely on the condition of soil, 
environment and the climatic condition of the season. 
Our trial has been made with King Philip corn. The charac- 
teristics of the season are given very fully elsewhere and may be ~ 
referred to here as cool, wet, and with only a small percentage of 
sunshine as compared with the possible. 
It will be seen by the table that in each case a definite amount . ~ 
of seed was used, and that when the amount of seed was increased 
_-by planting closer in hills and drills, an increase was also made in © 
the amount? sown broadcast, so there would be not only a com- © 
