Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 155, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1917 — FOR INCREASED CORN YIELDS [ARTICLE]

FOR INCREASED CORN YIELDS

Gain of 6.31 Bushels Per Acre by Thinning Secured at Ohio Station on Tested Seed. Thinning corn has resulted in a gain, as a four-year average at the Ohio experiment station, of 6.31 bushels per acre in the ease of seed tested for germination before planting, and of 8.47 bushels In the case of untested seed. The average time required for thinning an acre of corn was 5.7 hours. In one case three kernels were planted per hill, and on the plot in comparison a generous quantity of seed was dropped and the plants were thinned to three per hill when 6 to 8 Inches high. With tested seed an average yield of 59.28 bushels per acre was obtained with corn planted three kernels per hill, and 65.59 bushels per acre was harvested from thinned corn. With- untested seetL a yield of 55.38 bushels per acre was secured from regular planting and 63.85 bushels per acre where the corn was thinned. With corn at only 50 cents a bushel, one would make 65 cents an hour by thinning on this basis.