352 REPORT OF THE Farm SUPERINTENDENT OF THE 
The following table gives the total yield, sound and soft corn, 
and stover by difference; the number of bushels per acre, and 
weight of stover for each 100 pounds of sound corn : 
Crop oN Prats, Fiero E (Kine Puairip Corn), 1888. 


















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A Oo tele ae sans act me een ee ee TST OD Mi Sak 5 Ont OOO TB ane oe 34.50 59.8 116. 
BORA Oh cl ee mt. St eR ey 1,726.50 | 840.25 | 886.25 | 792.75 47.50 59.5 112 
CHINA acc MOAT 3 Siero Ub Geary ts Te ee 1,405.25 | 708.25 |. 697.00 | 637.75 70.50 52.3 109. 
LD hn ee cD Aaa se ana) ene Ru ep meee 1,787.00 | 886.25 | 850.75 |} 850.00 36,25 63.8 100. 
ee cel aol Beis ia Sees be ee MNS 1,624.25 | 824.50 | 799.75 | 775.00 49.50 58.1 103. 
TH ston eaters ir et Sit ie ot kc ern 1,660.75 | 858.00 | 802.75 815.50 42.50 61.2 98.4 
(CRE RS Ee ar ak ek ON Ash MB alga re Ro re 1,651.00 | 847.25 | 803.75 | 806.00 41 .25 60.5 99.7 
i a) 8 pea A eo sal om ae Bg ee Soh 1,672.00 | 870.75 | 801.25 | 825.00 45.75 61.9 x 97. 
LL asl cies IE LA bg itn ed Nea ea as, ue 1,292.75 | 672.75 | 620.00 | 607.25 65.50 45.5 102. 
AR Nye et elie ete GA et ae tr Rg =) Ae te 1,667 00 | 875.50 | 791.50 | 823.50 52.00 61.8 96. 
RR eto nee ek ate Roe eee 1,719.75 | 854.25 | 865.50 | 799.25 55.00 59.9 108. 
OTE el, Soke dt Ure RRR Ge Anais Oo! ee 108 1,589.50 | 832.75 | 755.75 | 787.25 45 .50 59 96. 
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SU TR ae ny Re ce AR CE he 1,643.75 | 819.25 | 824.50 | 776.50 42.75 58.2 106. 
RA ile DE RMAC ere Ae ARN RRR UR a er eg. Om 2 1,485.00 | 758.75 | 676.25 | 703.50 54.25 52.8 96. 
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This crop is so uniformly good that there is but one conclusion 
to draw: With the thirty loads of manure per acre plowed in, 
the corn was so well fed that a further application was unprofit- 
able and its effect scarcely noticeable, although there was, on the 
whole, a somewhat larger crop per acre than on the remainder of 
the field. There seems to have been an increase in the ratio of 
stover to sound corn from the plats which received nitrogen alone. 
This is in accord with the influence of nitrogen on our other plats. 
The most important and interesting part of this experiment is 
its bearing on the selection of plats which shall represent the 
field in which they are located. Being in strips extending across 
the whole field, they offer a fine opportunity for testing the rela- 
