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relation to the present plats. There were also some spots which 
- seemed to be more thrifty than their surroundings. 
Later in the season the remarkably even appearance of these 
plats, barring the spots noted above, was noted and pointed out 
as below, as viewed from the east end, while from the west end 
the general appearance agreed except that the corn on row 1 of 
plat C was comparatively better, since the intermediate row 
appears to be here in the dead furrow. 
The poor spots noted above were on plats C, D and E near 
southwest corner, further east on A, B, C, D and E. 
These are all on division 4 of the duplicate areas. 
Another poor spot occurred on B, C and D of division 3, and 
one on M, N and O of division 2. 
A careful count was made of the stand of corn, both hills and 
stalks, before harvest. The differences were found to be seven 
in a total of 460 to 467 hills, where a perfect stand called for 470, 
The stalks varied more, as would be expected. The range was 
from 1,990 to 2,125. 
The suckers had been removed, and where more stalks grew 
they had been reduced to five; hence a full stand of 5 stalks 
would have been 2,350 per plat. Plats J and K bore the fullest 
stand, 2,125, while A and I bore the least, 1,990 and 1,992 respect- 
ively. From this data it would be easy to calculate all to a 
perfect stand, but for the purposes of this experiment it seems 
best to use only what was actually produced on each plat without 
reducing to a perfect stand in like proportion to, what each 
actually produced. 
On September 22, the date of cutting up, passing across the 
plats from south to north one could not say that any one row was 
riper than another, but there seemed to be a gradual shading to 
greener stalks and ears toward the north, which was noticeable 
only after several plats were passed. 
The corn was husked between October 26 and November 1. 
The husking was done across the plats, completing one-fifth of all 
the plats inone day before moving forward to the next fifth. 
This method was followed in order to accommodate a cultivation » 
experiment and to give duplicate portions of each plat. 
