CHAPTER V 



VEGETABLES, ETC. CONTINUED. 



(Zea Mays). The common field sort is 

 not a market-garden crop: yet we cannot leave 

 wholly unmentioned this, the "king crop of the 

 country." The cheap and easily tilled lands of 

 the great West, with the labour-saving machinery 

 lately brought into use, furnish this corn at such 

 low prices that many farmers prefer to buy their 

 supply rather than grow it. But, where there is 

 suitable land that is not too valuable, it is, in our 

 opinion, cheaper in the long run for the owner 

 to grow his home supply. 



The soil best adapted to corn is what is generally 

 called "warm" land; that is, a rather light sandy 

 or gravelly loam with a porous subsoil, well 

 enriched arid thoroughly worked. 



There is no crop which will respond more 

 quickly to careful and liberal treatment, as is 

 proved by the fact that, within the last few years, 



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