. The Cuba review. Rows One-half Meter Apart, but Harvest 69J4 Pounds. Cultu ated. hard. Those farmers harvested a lo^ pound crop of corn, while with proper cultivation the harvest might have been 99 pounds. The schoolboys learned from this experience that it pays to cultivate corn. Do not believe this because I say it is true, but try the experiment, if you are interested, and you will learn the truth—for plants are always truthful. In another plat where the corn was planted in rows one-half meter apart the yield was 69I pounds and in another plat where the rows were i meter apart the yield w
. The Cuba review. Rows One-half Meter Apart, but Harvest 69J4 Pounds. Cultu ated. hard. Those farmers harvested a lo^ pound crop of corn, while with proper cultivation the harvest might have been 99 pounds. The schoolboys learned from this experience that it pays to cultivate corn. Do not believe this because I say it is true, but try the experiment, if you are interested, and you will learn the truth—for plants are always truthful. In another plat where the corn was planted in rows one-half meter apart the yield was 69I pounds and in another plat where the rows were i meter apart the yield was 99 pounds. Twenty-four and one-half pounds of corn were gained by having the rows a proper distance. Cultivated Rows, One Meter Apart. Harvest 99 Pounds. apart. A small crop of corn is secured if the plants are too close together. I have never tried the experiment with cocoanuts, but I believe that if they are planted too close together they, too, will produce a small crop. Cocoanut trees in Capiz Province are often planted 2, 4, or 6 meters apart. It is said by men of experience that these trees pro- duce the largest number of nuts if planted 9 or 10 meters apart.—Philippine Agricultural Review. Managing Cuban Bees. Fifteen hundred colonies of bees dis- tributed among four or five apiaries are about all that one man can manage with the help obtainable in Cuba. The honey- flow in this immediate vicinity is over by the last week in December, and at this time it is necessary to leave enough honey in the lower story to last the bees until the ist or iSth of March, when the new honey-fiow begins. Dur- ing this interval there is very little to do except to melt up combs from the oc- casional queenless colonies or colonies containing drone-layers.—Gleanings in Bee Culture. Some New Root Crops for the South. The Department of Agriculture at Washington is continually discovering and testing new crops. It has just is- sued a bulletin dealing with the "Yan- tias, taros, and
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