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There was in all probability a difference in the water contents of 
the crop from each method of planting, in favor of hills, and 
against that grown broadcast, which would show the difference in 
dry matter and food value, to be much greater than tags shown in 
the green crop. 
This is more likely, because of the improbability of the less 
mature corn having lost any of its green weight by ripening, while 
that in drills and in hills must have lost quite considerable amounts 
of water from this cause, and gained in dry matter at the same time. 
The hills yield most, the drills next, and the broadcast least in 
case of almost every plat, notably soin the summary. Not only is 
this the case, but we find the individual weight of stalks most in 
hills, medium in drills, and least when grown -broadcast. The 
stand of corn as harvested, owing to the unfavorable circumstances 
of the season, bears no commensurate relation to the amount of 
seed sown. 
ven if we were sure the feeding value of the above crops were 
equal, pound for pound, the difference in yield is enough to 
- convince the most sceptical that it would have paid on any 
ordinary farm to have planted that crop in hills. But there is a 
great probability that there was from five to ten pounds more of 
_ dry matter per hundred weight of crop in that grown in hills, over 
that grown broadcast, and that the corn in drills was nearer to that 
in hills in this respect than to what was grown broadcast. 
This added value in pound for pound, comparison would more 
than pay the cost of growing the crop, and the excess of crop be 
net gain over the crop grown broadcast. 
SORGHUM IN HILLS AND DRILLS. 
On May eighteenth, nine-twentieth acre plats were planted with 
Early Amber sorghum seed, every alternate row being in drills 
and the others in hills, three feet apart in the row. The rows 
were three and one-third feet apart. 
No material difference in the development or maturity of plants 
in hills or drills could be distinguished, except that the unthinned 
rows contained many more small, as they also did of fully 
developed ones. 
Many of the panicles showed seed in the milk early in Septem- 
ber, yet, when allowed to stand until October fifteenth and six- 
