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SWEET CORN WHITE SORTS FOR MIDSEASON 



THE advancing season brings both ears of larger size 

 and kernels of better quality. A close rival to 

 Pocahontas described on preceding page is Metropolitan, 

 bearing ten to twelve rowed ears, ten inches long, in 

 ninety days from date of sowing seeds. About the same 

 time, Original Crosby's (ear to left above) bears its thick, 

 eight-inch ears, with twelve to fourteen rows of broad, 

 deep kernels of remarkable quality. But the prize for 

 quality in this class is due Howling Mob which, in ninety 

 to ninety-five days from date seeds were sown, surprises 

 the planter with twelve-rowed ears nine to ten inches long. 

 Considering general adaptability to widely varying 

 soils and climates, Howling Mob must be considered the 

 leading second early white-grained sweet corn of quality. 

 (See ear to right above.) To get all the quality that is 

 in any corn out of it, ears should be picked when a slight 

 pressure of a finger-nail against the kernels bursts the 

 skin and causes the milky juice to appear. 



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