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forward <it least a month earlier than it can be raised at the 

 North. Plant as soon as the weather is settled, and plant only 

 so much as you can faithfully attend. Earliness is the main point, 

 and faithful cultivation hastens its maturity. We prefer drill 

 sowing in rows four and a half feet apart, and six to eight inches 

 apart in the drill. Northern farmers can realize double the 

 profit fror sweet corn sold green that they can for ripe corn, 

 besides getting the whole off in time to sow turnips for a 

 second crop. The stalk of the sweet corn is much more nutri- 

 tions than that of the common corn, and it is as fodder that we 

 chiefly recommend it to the farmer. Sow a few acres in drills 

 or broadcast, and it furnishes a fodder excelled by nothing else 

 that we know. Early Darling and Stowell's Evergreen are 

 the best market varieties, but any sugar corn will answer for 

 fodder. 



The Cucumber is well fitted for Southern culture, and the 

 profits on an acre in cucumbers, ready for market a month ear- 

 lier than they can be raised near New York, will exceed the 

 average profit on ten acres in cotton. A new method of for- 

 warding the plants, originated by ]N[r. Henderson, is to plant the 

 seeds on reversed sods, in cold frames, covering them with half 

 an inch of rich mould. The sods are two or three inches thick, 

 and three seeds are planted to each sod of four inches square. 

 The seeds are sprinkled thoroughly with a watering pot, and 

 the sashes kept on until the plants come up, which will be inside 

 of a week. They should now have air daily from nine to three 

 o'clock, for two or three weeks, when they can be planted out 

 in hills, three feet apart each way. In the vicinity of New York 

 this cannot be done before the first of June, while at Charleston 

 It might be done a month or six weeks earlier, the seed being 

 "own early in April. When set out they should be manured 

 m the hill. {See Garden Culture.) 



