that maize crop fertilized @ 175 & 25 kg N & S ha-1,
respectively significantly delayed silking over that fertilized
@ 125 and 35 kg N & S ha-1, respectively but did not differ
significantly with plot fertilized @ 175 & 35 kg N & S ha-1,
respectively. Similarly, the difference among T4, T3, T2 and
T5 were statistically at par with one another. While control
plot where no fertilizer applied took significantly minimum
number (43.12) of days taken to silking which was
statistically at par with T2, T3 and T5.The delay in silking of
the crop rose with higher dose of nitrogen and sulphur might
be due to more vegetative growth of plants. These results are
in line with the finding of Nawaz [10] and Khaliq et al. [11]
who reported that application of nitrogen delayed the silking
of maize crop.