Mid-Season Vegetables 



is of benefit to the corn as it allows all the 

 strength of the plant to go into the ears instead 

 of being wasted in growing useless foliage. 



Corn is a gross feeder and requires a deep, 

 mellow, fertile soil, well eni'iched with barnyard 

 manure. Clover sod well manured and ploughed 

 will give the maximum amount of corn, but any 

 good soil if fertilized will produce good corn. 



Corn is somewhat tender and should not be 

 planted until the ground is warm, but in the small 

 home garden where a small amount of seed is re- 

 quired a little risk may be run by planting early 

 in May and replanting if an early frost catches 

 the crop. It is not, as a general thing, the 

 spring frost that does the most damage, especially 

 with field corn, it is the late frost that catches 

 the corn still in the milk that does the damage, 

 so that anything that pushes the crop along to 

 maturity before danger of fall frost is of moment. 

 This is one reason why heavy fertilizing is so 

 important, — it speeds up the maturing of the 

 corn and gets it beyond the danger line in time. 



Sweet corn may be planted in drills or in hills, 

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