Corn; growing, judging, breeding, feeding, marketing; for the farmer and student of agriculture, a text-book for agricultural colleges and high schools . istance between hills and rows desirable. Number of Stalks Per Hill. There is more or less difference ofopinion upon this particular point. In the early years of corn grow-ing in the central West, the number of kernels per hill was con-trolled by such an adage as Always plant five kernels, one for theblackbird, one for the crow, one for the cut worm and two to , it may be said that the amount of corn that can be pro^duced on a giv
Corn; growing, judging, breeding, feeding, marketing; for the farmer and student of agriculture, a text-book for agricultural colleges and high schools . istance between hills and rows desirable. Number of Stalks Per Hill. There is more or less difference ofopinion upon this particular point. In the early years of corn grow-ing in the central West, the number of kernels per hill was con-trolled by such an adage as Always plant five kernels, one for theblackbird, one for the crow, one for the cut worm and two to , it may be said that the amount of corn that can be pro^duced on a given area of land is determined by the soil, seed, and kernefs °^management, together with the climatic conditions. Naturally, land wlthWrich in fertility can maintain a greater number of stalks per acre thancan poorer land. While in the former case four or five kernels tothe hill may not be too many, in the latter two kernels to the hillwould be sufficient. Three kernels to the hill is generally consideredas the standard, and it may be said that there is very little good corn-producing land that can not maintain three good stalks to the hill. soil. Fig. S4. CORN disc furrow-openers. If corn is planted thick on land of poor fertility, the result isstover and not ears. On the other hand, two or three kernels are often 174 CORN. Test atIllinoisStation planted to the hill on land so rich in fertility that much greater yieldswould have been secured by planting four and possibly five the latter case, with two and three kernels a great many suckersare produced, sometimes as many as two to three per hill. Had therebeen four or five kernels to the hill in this case, the fertility of theground would have been utilized in producing stalks of corn bearingears, rather than suckers. Of 200 representative Iowa corn growers corresponded with,60 per cent planted from three to four kernels, and none more thanfive kernels per hill. The Illinois Experiment Station carrie
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