GARDEXLVG AND TRUCK FARMING. :)01 



ground is warm. Probably three years out of four you will 

 save this early planting and gain a few days' time. Do not 

 wait to see if it is killed before making a second planting, but 

 plant again a week later, and at this second planting plant an 

 early and a late variety. All the varieties of sweet corn require 

 a rich soil, and especially the quick maturing kinds. 



I think a thousand dozen ears of the larger varieties can be 

 grown on an acre, and the smaller kinds can be planted much 

 closer. Plant the larger varieties in rows three and a half feet 

 apart, and the stalks one foot in the row. This will give over 

 12,000 stalks to the acre, and it is safe to estimate that one- 

 fourth of them will bear two ears. The small early varieties 

 will bear much closer planting rows three feet and stalks six 

 inches, which would make over 28,000 stalks to the acre. Late 

 corn I usually find the most profitable, and it can be planted 

 after early peas or a crop of turnip seed has matured. In my 

 latitude, the last week in June and the first in July is the time 

 we plant the late crop, using the large varieties, as they sell best. 



For family use the early varieties may be planted two weeks 

 later. Where dairying and truck farming are combined, sweet 

 corn is a very profitable crop, for the fodder will pay all the 

 expense, and all the corn sold is clear profit. The earliest 

 varieties are, Early Boynton also called Tom Thumb Mar- 

 blehead, Early Minnesota, and Early Red Narragansett. These 

 varieties will be fit for the table in from eight to ten weeks 

 from planting, varying with the weather and time of plant- 

 ing. Stowell Evergreen is the standard variety for the main 

 crop, and the one grown almost exclusively for the canning 

 establishments. The ears are large, and it is sweet and tender, 

 and remains for some weeks in good condition and produces 

 heavy crops. Mammoth Sweet is a large and very excellent 

 variety, sweet and tender, and with ears as large as field corn. 

 Amber Cream is a productive, vigorous variety, which endures 

 drought better than most kinds, and is of excellent flavor a 

 good family variety. There are a score more of varieties, but 

 those named I believe to be the best. 



Pop-corn. When a contract can be made for its sale, or 



