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season in which to obtain table size. If properly planted, 

 sweet corn may be had in a young and tender condition 

 from the middle of July until the cold weather of autumn. 



Marketing. There is a large demand for green corn 

 in every city and village. It is marketable as soon as the 

 kernels are well formed and is generally sold in the husk 

 by the dozen or by the barrel, at prices ranging on the 

 market from five to twenty-five cents per dozen. There 

 are many canning factories in the Northwest and many 

 in other parts of the country that make a specialty of can- 

 ning sweet corn. Grown for this purpose or for evaporat- 

 ing, it is a farm crop that may be made to pay very well in 

 some locations, and extensive tracts of land are devoted 

 to raising it. Where the crop is marketed at canning 

 factories the fodder is left on the farm and is in admirable 

 condition for feeding. 



The canneries pay from $10 to $>12 per ton for the 

 corn in a few states. They pay by the pound for corn cut 

 from the cob. Gross receipts for corn vary from fifty 

 cents or one dollar to two or three hundred dollars per acre. 

 The ears are best for table use when first picked, and 

 quickly lose in quality after gathering; if they heat in 

 piles or packages they are of very inferior quality. 



Varieties. Peep-O-Day, White and Red Cob Cory 

 are early varieties. They will often mature in eight weeks. 

 Early Minnesota, Black and White Mexican, and Golden 

 Bantam are good second early sorts. Golden Bantam 

 is an especially good variety for the home garden. It is 

 sometimes difficult to sell on account of its yellow color, until 

 the buyers have tried it. Crosby is a good early canning 

 sort and is also a good second early for the market. For 

 late use, but requiring a long season in which to mature, 

 Stowell's Evergreen and Egyptian Mammoth are desirable. 



