174 - REPORT OF THE HORTICULTURIST OF THE 
pruning. The weeds were kept down during the season either by 
pulling them by hand or by cutting them with the scuffle-hoe, the 
latter penetrating the ground only about half an inch. 
The crop was. harvested October 22, with the following results : 
Corn— Tot Errect oF Root Pruning THE Youna PLANT. 
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E x 4 : Not Root- 
6 RootT-PRUNED 6 Dunne 
pla ia ue maids base 
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g sf 1 Ss S ae | os 
g aS | 4S g as | os 
3 o Dn 5 o O% 
G Py Ee Ai ie - 
Lbs. | Lbs. Lbs Lbs. 
WTAE DS inees Poco aa vecsa ds Yai dineie pli! ea fh J 18% 2034 2 24% 33 
3 20 2014 4 2534 30% 
5 19: Sh 430% 6 2434 3144 
7 18%4 | 20% 8 184 2024 
Totals for Dlats veces ee etek Aeon | 16 81% 93 115% 
TAG CRE aes eee ea di eae aie ice 1 spy 83 Dodi SUG 323% 
3 31% 3134 4 | 31% 38 
5 2534 3334 6 314% 2834 
“f 27 2914 8 3334 37% 
‘Lotais'for plate. cs eee ote oa ee eeere 10634 | 119% 12736 138744 
Totals for the two plats............. 18234 | 20134 | 90034 | 25284 



Exxcess in favor of rows not root-pruned. 37 3-4) 511-2 
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As two one-twentieth acre plats were devoted to this experi- 
ment, and one-half of the rows were root-pruned, the root-pruned 
rows measured one-twentieth of an acre. It appears, therefore, 
that, counting 80 pounds of the freshly-husked corn as a shelled 
bushel, the rows not root-pruned yielded at the rate of 9 bushels 
and 424 pounds of shelled corn and 1,020 pounds of stalks per 
acre more than the root-pruned rows. In 1887,t with a drier 





* The weight of corn in this row was lost through a mistake, but that of 
the unhusked shock was secured. The weight of the corn was therefore 
calculated from the weight of the shock by assuming that this row con+ 
tained the same percentage of corn to the stalks as the other root-pruned 
rows. 
+ Report New York Agricultural Experiment Station, 1887, pp. 93-4. 
