The Busy Woman s Garden Book 



but I prefer the hill method. Even in a small 

 patch that can be worked but one way with a 

 horse or cultivator — there is always a hoe to take 

 care of the space between the hills. 



The rows should be three feet apart and the 

 corn in hills three feet apart, or if planted in rows 

 make the rows four feet apart and the corn 

 twelve inches apart. Drop several kernels in 

 each hill and thin to three plants to a hill when 

 the corn is up and danger of frost is passed. One 

 pound of seed will plant a hundred hills or from 

 one hundi-ed and fifty to two hundred feet of 

 row. If hard frost threatens just as the corn 

 is coming through the ground, throwing earth 

 over it with a hoe will often afford sufficient pro- 

 tection to save it. 



In a small garden patch it is not much work 

 to stick a mark of some kind in the center of each 

 hill and if this is done cultivation can commence 

 at once and a hard crust be prevented from form- 

 ing; this will hasten the germination of the seed 

 and insure the elimination of weeds at the start. 



There are many varieties of sweet corn adver- 

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