Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-01-12

nSe years the late varieties gave the
largest average yields, nine suoh va.
fieties averaging 20 bushels. Sixty.
seven plats of medium maturing yarie.
ties averaged SO bushels per acre, and
10 plats of early maturing varieties
averaged nearly % bushels. For Ave
years past each of four medium-ma.
turing varieties have given yields Of
from IL to 76 bushels per acre.
The best early maturing variety has
given in the same time average yields
of 65 bushels per acre. For three
years past the best yield by any va
riety was S3 bushels per acre, by
Boone County White. The largest
yield in 1892 was almost exactly 100
bushels per acre of air-dry corn, of the
variety known as Piasa Queen-a
variety maturing too late for Central
Illinois. The trials for six years indi.
cate that the larger, medium matur.
ing varieties give the best results.
Among these tho Boone County White,
Champion White Pearl and Burr
White represent the most satisfactory
type of white, while the Leaning has
given the best results among the vel.
low varieties. The Murdoch has given
the best yields of any early maturing
yariety-65 bushels per acre for five
years.
Excellent varieties were obtained
from many different places. Extraya.
CANT claims, such rs yields of 100
bushels per acre under ordinary Guilt
walton, or that any variety worth
cultiyating natures in eighty or ninety
days, when planted OF the usual time,
are not to be accepted rs correct. In
ordinary circumstances 100 days from
date of planting may be considered as
minimum for field corn to. mature
fully; late varieties often need $50
days in Central Illinois.
Repeated trials have uniformly
shown that larger yields of both corn
and stalks are obtained by planting
larger number of kernels than is Gus
tomary in the best practice of Illinois.
From $4,000 to ID, 600 kernelsuplanted
per acre seems to be the minimum for
largest yields Mt the station grounds.
This is equivalent to kernels per
hill, in rows ut the usual distance for
planting ia Illinois. In most of the
trials the rows were 8 feet 8 inches
apart each way. Twenty-four varieties
were planted i'll ms many plats, half of
each having 3 kernels and half four
kernels in each hill. In 81 of the "a
cases the larger yields were obtained
from the thicker planting, the average
increase for the "a plants being about
4. b bushels per acre.
Repeated trials havs shown That if
other conditions are the same, there liz
no perceptible difference in the aver
age yield, whether the corn is planted
i'll hills or i'll drills, the number Of
stalks secured influencing this rather
than their mode of distribution. In
many cases it is moro difficult to keep
drilled corn free from weeds. To Sc
cure the largest yield of both corn and
stalks, medium maturing varieties may
be planted Mt the rate of kernel to
each three inches in rows 8 feet 6
inches apart. Thick planting gives
smaller ears. which increase the labor
in husking. Where the corn is to be
fed without husking the smaller size
of the ears may be an advantage.
AS in each of several previous years,
trials in 1892 show that shallow Guilt
walton is better than deep, and that
more frequent cultivation than is
necessary to keep the soil free from
weeds and the surface fairly loose ia
not profitable.
No noticeable effect on yield was
produced by removing tassels from
alternate rows.