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There was some difference in regard to size and ripening of 
cane from the different plats. The observations made by Mr. 
Goff were practically as follows : 
Plats 1, 17, 2} tallest, ripest. 
Plats 22, 7, 11, 23, next in maturity. 
Plats 5, 6, not so tall, but maturity about like the preceding. 
Plats 1, 3, 4, very slightly later in maturity than preceding. 
Plats 18, 3, 15, 19, 8, 12, next in point of maturity. 
Plats 16, 20, 24, next in point of maturity. 
Plats 9, 10, 14, most backward. 
The samples of cane for analysis were selected by Mr. Goff. 
The seeds of all were in the milky stage. Six stalks were taken 
from each plat; the juice from them mixed and analyzed. Where 
two plats were fertilized alike the juice from both samples was 
mixed and one analysis made. As the first seven analyses showed 
no practical difference, no more were made. By mistake the 
sample from plat No. 23 was mixed with Nos. 15 and 24, which 
were from unfertilized plats. The analyses resulted as follows: | 









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Corn PLANTING. 
Partial experiments made in corn planting, in regard to arrange- 
ment of hills, gave no very positive results. 
Comparison was made between the rectangular and hexagonal 
(triangular) method and the method of planting in drills. 
Four one-acre plats and eighteen tenth-acre plats were planted. 
On the large plats “King Philip” corn (an orange-colored flint 
variety) was planted, and on the smaller ‘“ Waushakum ” (a yellow 
flint variety). 
The two methods of planting in hills gave practically the same 
results. The yield from drills was slightly less. The average 
yield per acre for all was about sixty bushels of shelled corn and 
two and one-half tons of stalks. 
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