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the plants develop rather better than in hills, and it is the 

 method preferred by many good growers, though field corn is 

 generally planted in hills. Corn should be cultivated 

 shallow and never deep enough to cut the roots; until it is 

 six inches high it may be harrowed with a slant tooth 

 harrow. 



Later Plantings. In order to have a long season of this 

 vegetable in its best condition for table use, plantings of 

 the very early and some good second early kind should 

 be made at the same time; and then plantings of the second 



Fig. 60. Early Cory corn. 



early kinds should be made once in two weeks thereafter, 

 up to about the twentieth of June. If planted later than 

 this there is much doubt about its getting large enough 

 for table use before the autumn frosts set in. The very 

 early kinds, however, may be planted in Minnesota as late 

 as the fourth of July, with good prospects of their becoming 

 of marketable size ; but the very early varieties are small 

 in size and not as sweet and desirable as the larger second 

 early or late kinds, and a few varieties require the whole 



