Roosevelt Standard | 1917-08-22 | Page 3 | For Increased Corn Yields

FOR INCREASED CORN YIELDS gain of bushels per acre by thinning secured at ohio station on tested seed thinning curn has resulted in a buhl as a four year average fit at the otilo ohio experiment station of bushels per acre in tho the case of seed tested for lo 10 germination before planting and of bul bushels liels in the cae of untested aind tile the average time required for thinning an acre was 57 hours in one case abr three ee kernels were planted per hill and on tb the plot in comparison a generous quantity of seed heed nas as dropped and the plants were thinned to three per hill when 6 to 8 inches high with tested seed an average yield of bushels per acre was obtained with corn planted three kernels per hill and bubbels buss hels per acre was harvested from thinned corn with untested seed a yield of bushels per acre was secured from regular planting and bushels per acre where the corn was thinned with corn at only 50 cena cents a bushel one would make 65 cents an hour by thinning on this basis