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parison of the three methods of planting corn, but also a com- 
parison of three very different amounts of seed per acre by each 
method, which varies between giving each plant a large area, to 
considerable crowding where the most seed was used. This 
crowding of plants was somewhat interfered with by roaming 
fowls that picked up some of the broadcast seed which was 
exposed to view by rain after harrowing in and more by washing 
away entirely from all three methods of seeding. The OC and D 
plats lie in the course of drainage from a considerable area and 
were quite severely washed by running water during several of the 
heavy rains of the season. 
This destroys the value of the comparison of different amounts 
of seed per acre, so the stand of corn on each plat at harvest has - 
_ been taken and this furnishes data for a comparison which shows 
the average weight of individual plants grown in each of the three 
methods of planting. 
These plats were planted May seventeenth to eighteenth ; hoed 
first,"June fourteenth; hoed second, July thirteenth; weeds were 
cut out August sixteenth to seventeenth and nineteenth ; the crop 
was harvested September fourteenth. | 
On July twenty-fourth the appearance of the corn was as follows: 
Plats D5 to 14, inclusive. The corn in hills was about 
shoulder high, with broad dark-green leaves and just beginning 
to tassel. In drills it was rather shorter and paler, with nearly as 
large leaves and slightly in advance of that in “hills,” tasseling. 
That broadcast was smaller than in drills and was comparatively 
very pale. Weeds were plentiful in the broadcast plats. 
Plats C 9 to 13. There seemed to be more difference in favor of 
“hills” first and “drills” second, as: compared with broadcast, 
except on plats 12 and 13, where the boadcast corn was more open, 
- nearly as tall as in hills and drills, but of a paler color. 
Plat G1l. Corn in hills and drills about alike, while that 
broadcast is poorer. 
Plats 12 and 13. Corn in hills has attained a good growth, and 
has broad dark green leaves. That in drills is about the same 
and taller than in hills, while that broadcast is not quite so thrifty, 
but is better than the best on G 11. 
At harvest, except for a few scattered stalks, there was very 
little sound corn on the broadcast plats. On the drilled plats the 
stalks were fairly eared, while in hills it would have been easy to 
select considerable corn fit for seed. 
