Show bow much seed wheat to the acrea in the fall of 1877 an experiment was begun on the farm of the ohio state university in seeding wheat at differ ent rates per acre the experiment was made on rich bottom land and although a yield of 34 bushels of wheat was harvested from five pecks of seed the yield tor seven pecks was 37 bush els the next year the experiment was repeated with great care five du plicate plots of one sixth acre each being sown with each quantity of seed with the result again that the seven peck rate of seeding gave enough more wheat than any smaller quantity to abundantly compensate the extra cost of seed in 1882 this question was taken up the ohio experiment station then located on the same farm and was repeated nearly every year until the station was removed to its present lo 10 cation the final summing up of these experiments made in 1891 indicated a maximum average yield on that soil tor quantities of seed ranging from five to seven pecks in 1892 the station was removed to its present location the eoll of which Is naturally far lesa productive than that upon which it was first located and after a few years the investigation of this problem was again undertaken with the result that ane most profitable harvests have been reaped from eight pecks of seed and upward the nine and ten peck rates having given the best returns in unfavorable seasons chas E thorne director |