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center of the garden or towards one side, 

 grading the vegetables by height from the 

 smallest up to the corn. 



The question would now arise, If a rota- 

 tion of crops is practiced in the garden, just 

 where should the corn be placed? If grown 

 towards the north each year in a garden 

 with the rows running east and west, it 

 would be possible to interchange corn with 

 pole beans, and perhaps with tomatoes if 

 the tomatoes were staked, and therefore 

 the soil would have a change of crops. 



The soil requirements of corn are very 

 general, and much of the corn is cosmo- 

 politan as to soil. We find it growing on 

 heavy clays and medium loams down to 

 very light loams. However, as a general 

 rule, the best corn is produced in a sandy 

 or gravelly loam which has a liberal supply 

 of manure incorporated in the soil. As 

 the corn is naturally a shallow-rooted plant, 

 it would require quite a storehouse of 

 water near the surface for its best devel- 

 opment. This would be obtained by having 

 plenty of humus incorporated in the soil. 



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