The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-03-28
that gavt the Kafir no chance

to recover.
The following experiments were carried
On and in all cases the black hulled va
riety was used. At the station, IS pound:
of grain is considered bushel.
As planned this experiment consisted
of a large number OF single plats or
which there was to be q wide variation
In the distance between hills in the row
and in the number of plants in the hill
but due TO the poor and irregular stand
in many cases the original plan was
abandoned, and the single row plats that
joined each other were grouped into one
plat. As a result the experiment consists
of smaller number of larger plats vary
ing somewhat in size. with a thick plant
ing of Kaffir corn on some, a medium
stand on others, and a very thin stand
on others. The results must be, more or
less, of a general nature, as the stand
| varies somewhat on each plat. The ap-
proximate stand was obtained by count
ing the number of stalks in fifty feet of
row in numerous places on each plat
The largest yield of grain, ffty-one
| bushels per acre. was obtained on plat
Il, where the rows were three and one
half feet apart and the stalks aver
aging two and six-tenths inches apart in
the row. Distances varying considerably
above and below this distance gave good
| results but when the stalks were ten TO
| eighteen inches apart in the row. very
| low yields were obtained Having the
rows very close together did not bring
up the yield. Where the stalks were ten
to eighteen inches apart, they were short
and coarse.
CORN.
The season Of 1899 was very favorable
for early planted corn, and that on the
college farm went through without seri-
Gus damage ad most of it was ripe by
the end of the first week in August The
variety used in the first experiment is
an early and rather small growing sort
suitable for the uplands It is white
corn and goes by the name Of Early
Adams. In most of the experiments the
plants are of good size and long and
narrow. The soil is upland prairie, heavy
in character. Planting was done be-
tween April Is and 25
THICKNESS OF PLANTING.
The stand was not as regular as
planned, but there was no great varia-
tons in it. The we'll distributed rainfall
aid to the thickly planted corn, and bet
ter results are given here than can be
expected usually with corn planted so
thicly. 1t. was necessary to cut up the
corn on the thick planting a week earlier /
than on the thin. The stalks were thinner
and finer, but fifty per cent of the ears
weer very small nubbins. while in the /
the case of the thin paintings, only 10 /
to y per cent were nubbins.
In this experiemnt the results differ /
but little whether the corn is in hills or
drills; but the largest yields of grain We're
obtained where there were at least
twelve inches given to each stock in the
row.
DEEP AND SHALLOW PLANTING.
heavy piece of land underlaid with a
stiff subsoil. The fact must be kept in
mind that the spring and early summer
had an unusual rainfall. The pIats were
all given the same cultivation No differ
ence could be seen in the ground on the
different treatments. On the matured
ground, the growth was larger and more
vigorous.
On two dates. % and August 9, soil
samples We're taken for moisture deter
$1,000
plat from zero to twelve inches deep, and
twelve inches 10 eighteen inches deep
Several samples We're taken on each plat.
Nothing definite can be drawn from thees
results, but there is nothing to show that
the deeply plowed plats contained any
more moisture than the shallow plowed
olats, at the critical period The grain
was of very fair quality on all the plats.
METHODS OF CULTIVATION.
This experiment as carried out was
)nly modification of what was planned. ;
2lats A, 49, so and 80 were cultivated
With Daisy spring tooth cultivator: 6
'lats 46 and 80, with doubleshovel cult +
'ator; plat AZ was merely scraped with ;
he hoe to keep down the weeds; plats 7
and 81. with both the double shovel and r
he spring tooth. All the plats, except =
Z, were cultivated first on May IS.
At the time when the corn was caring. =
would have been difficult to have told :
hat the plats had received any different =
reatment, as the rain had washed the -
ettled soil, and no difference could be r
cen in the growth Of the different plats
CASTOR BEANS. 7
The hot dry weather in August affected c
c
-as the so-called common castor bean g
nd had been grown on the station farm -
or several years past where thr best =
pixies had been selected for seeds each :.
ear. The experiments were situated in =,
ifferent fields. -
This experiment was situated in field II
lat had received applications Of barn.
ard manure in previous years and was n
good filth. The plat rows were three q
ct and eight inches apart. The plant n
gs were made a various dates. -
Theer IS but little difference in the q,
eds from the different dates Of plant :,
z, with the exception Of the last one. q,
here the yield is about half that of the y.
hers. The first planting was over thirty ..
AVS in coming and the last only twelve :,
iys. In effect this makes the da:ps OF
anting the same or the first four.
arch was a cold backward month To =
hat it usually IS and had on influence
! the early paintings The first picking
as made on July q and included all the ~
ants On the two last paintings on;
few of the spikes were ripe, but on the
rlier paintings 3 to 3 per cent ot the Ae
ops were harvested al that time Other
cSings We're made on al OF the plat= ="
ly 81, August l., 70 and 20. ard or Sep r.
mber 13. On all. except the last three "
ats, about one-third OF the crop was II
rvested at the second picking On all lel
the plats the returns were very Ilr1- ~
ter the fourth picking. which was oa =