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Food for Plants. 



Sweet Com. 



When sweet varieties are grown, the object is to obtain 

 a hirge number of ears suitable for the table. The sweet 

 varieties are less hardy and vigorous than the ordinary 

 field varieties, and are better adajjted for light soils, 

 hence the treatment is still different from that used when 

 grown for the purposes already mentioned. The grain 

 is not planted ordinarily until the soil is thoroughly 

 warm, and the temperature is likely to continue high 

 and, because better suited for light soils, special fertiliza- 

 tion is necessary. 



Corn and Oats, New York Experimental Fields. 



INDIAN CORN (MAIZE) EXPERIMENTS. 



New York State, Seasons of 1918 and of 1919. 



Experiments in New York State car- 

 Experiments in ried on with maize ensilage, or Indian 

 New York State, corn, show that whilst the return iii 



value of the increased crop is not ex- 

 cessive owing, no doubt, to the lateness of the fertilizer 

 application, notable crop increases were obtained. 



