Annual report of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station . KERNELS PER HILL. Fig. 232. Diagram showing the relative rate of yield in bushels peracre of sweet corn according to the number of kernels planted to thehill, without subsequent thinning. KERNELS PER HILL, Fig. 233. Diagram showing the percentage weight of corn on nubbinsin the total yield, according to the number of kernels planted to the hill,without subsequent thinning. 298 MAINi: AGRICULTURAL ElXPliRIMENT STATION. 191O. From this table and the diagrams we note the followingpoints: 1. The highest yield of corn was obta
Annual report of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station . KERNELS PER HILL. Fig. 232. Diagram showing the relative rate of yield in bushels peracre of sweet corn according to the number of kernels planted to thehill, without subsequent thinning. KERNELS PER HILL, Fig. 233. Diagram showing the percentage weight of corn on nubbinsin the total yield, according to the number of kernels planted to the hill,without subsequent thinning. 298 MAINi: AGRICULTURAL ElXPliRIMENT STATION. 191O. From this table and the diagrams we note the followingpoints: 1. The highest yield of corn was obtained from the rowswhere 4 kernels were planted to the hill. Or, in other words,the largest amount of ear corn with an averagestand of between 3 and 4 stalks to the hill. It is of interest tonote that this is in agreement with certain results of this samekind of an experiment with field corn recently reported byWilliams and Welton {loc. cit.). 2. With 3 kernels to the hill the rate of yield per acre iswithin 3 bushels of that with 4 kernels to the hill, and is nearly10 bushels higher than with 5 kernels to the hill. Now 5 ker-nels to the hill in our plot meant an average stand of only alittle over 4 stalks to the hill; and 3 kernels to
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