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Agricultural Gazette of N.S. W. 



[Aug. 2, 1920. 



Some consideration might be given, also, to the production of a small 

 amount of sweet corn for seed. Sydney seedsmen last season were selling 

 sweet corn seed for 4s. per lb. A little local production of seed of the best 

 varieties should have the effect of reducing this cost. 



The following are the results of this trial : — 



Variety. 



Yield 

 per Acre. 



Number of 



Cobs per 



Acre. 



Variety. 



Yield 

 per Aore. 



Number of 



Cobs per 



Acre. 



Mammoth White Cory 

 Zig Zag Evergreen 



Howling Mob 



Cosmopolitan .. 

 Country Gentleman ... 

 Early Ci'osby ... 

 Black Mexican 



Stowell's Evergreen. 

 Metropolitan ... 

 Early Evergreen 

 Hiawatha 

 Golden Bantam 

 Henderson 

 Golden Rod ... 



dozen. 

 378 

 424 

 397 

 367 

 510 

 254 

 303 



The results are given at per acre — the weights for the information of the 

 grower who is marketing to a cannery, and the number of cobs for the farmer 

 who is sending to a city market for sale as fresh cobs. 



Some growers are fortunate enough to send fresh cobs direct to the 

 consumer (usually a big city restaurant or hotel) and escape the middleman's 

 charges. Some of these men have assured the writer that they have a 

 contract for so many fresh cobs weekly at 3d. or 4d. per cob. With the 

 yields of the best varieties as given here such a price returns a very hand- 

 some profit indeed. The city fruiterers usually sell sweet corn cobs at 3d. 

 and 4d. per cob during the season, but this means an average of only Id. per 

 cob to the grower, which is about the usual price when the produce is 

 marketed by weight at 5s. to 8s. per bushel of cobs — about fifty to seventy 

 cobs per bushel being about the average for all varieties. 



The varieties tested matured in the following order :— Golden Bantam, 

 Mammoth White Cory, Metropolitan, Golden Rod, Early Crosby, Hiawatha, 

 Cosmopolitan, Howling Mob, Black Mexican, Early Evergreen, Henderson, 

 Zig Zag Evergreen, Stowell's Evergreen, and Country Gentleman. 



Notes on Varieties. 



A few notes follow on the varieties included in this test, and on others 

 which have been previously tried in New South Wales by the Department. 

 They are arranged approximately in order of maturity. 



Golden Bantam. — A very early dwarf variety, never more than 4 or 5 feet 

 high, with cobs 5 to 6 inches in length, carrying usually eight rows of broad 

 grain of rich golden-yellow colour and very sweet flavour. The yellow 

 colour, wfiich shows faintly at the " roasting " stage, is not fancied on the 

 market, as it too closely reKembles field corn, for which it is mistaken. For 

 canning, the yellow colour in also undesirable. This variety has its place only 

 as a home garden .sort and then only on account of its exceptional earliness. 

 It is easily surpassed in yield and rivalled in quality by others which art> 

 only a week or so later. 



