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 TABLE 79. ACRES OF DIFFERENT VARIETIES OF SWEET CORN GROWN IN 1920 



Miscellaneous returns 



The stalks may be used in various ways. Stock may be turned in 

 and the stalks not cut, or the stalks may be cut and fed as dry fodder, or 

 they may be put into silos. At the factories the husks and the cobs 

 are stacked or put into silos. The growers usually have the privilege of 

 buying the resulting ensilage at a cost of $2 or $3 per ton. Where the 

 growers had this privilege, the estimated value of this material above 

 the price paid and the cost of hauling was credited to the crop. The 

 miscellaneous returns represent, therefore, the estimated value of the 

 standing stalks plus the value above cost of the silage obtained from the 

 factory (table 80). The value of stalks was less in the Livingston area 

 because most of the stalks were not harvested until they had been badly 

 frosted. 



TABLE 80. MISCELLANEOUS RETURNS PER ACRE OF SWEET CORN IN 1920 



LABOR REQUIREMENTS 



The time spent on the various operations on the sweet-corn crop is 

 given in table 81. The land is fitted for sweet corn in much the same 

 manner as for any other cultivated crop. The greater part of the corn 

 in the areas visited was planted with a two-horse corn planter. On several 

 farms, particularly in the Ontario area, the corn was gone over with a 

 weeder before it was cultivated. The average number of cultivations 

 with a two-horse cultivator were: Orleans, 3; Ontario, 4.2; Livingston, 4. 

 In addition to this, some cultivation was done with a one-horse cultivator, 

 the average number of cultivations being: Orleans, 0.2; Ontario, i.o; 

 Livingston, 0.5. In the Livingston area the corn was practically all 



