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kernels are previously taken out by hand with a husk- 

 ing peg. 



The shelled product is run through a fanning mill, 

 which blows out all light and chaffy stuff, and screens 

 out the small kernels; the quantity that is thus blown 

 and screened out being about one bushel in fifty. 



Sugar corn must not be stored in sacks too soon, nor 

 kept in them too long, as it retains moisture a consider- 

 able time and is likely to mould. Neither should it be 

 piled in bulk until thoroughly dry, but should be 

 spread out thinly and raked over from time to time. 



To Save for Private Use. The best way to save 

 sugar corn for one's own use, is to break off the finest 

 ears, leaving the outer husk attached. Hang up the 

 unhusked ears, several tied together, until they are 

 wanted for use, in a dry, airy room or garret where 

 they will become perfectly d^. 



Market. Seed-corn, both field and sugar, is 

 handled in enormous quantities by all seed dealers. 

 Not so many years ago the bulk of seed sugar corn used 

 by the trade was produced in Connecticut. In fact, 

 Connecticut seed-corn was for a long time considered 

 the standard in the market, and it was generally sup- 

 posed that no other so good could be raised else- 

 where. But all this has greatly changed, and to-day 

 Connecticut supplies but a small portion of the seed 

 sugar corn that the country consumes. Seed-corn fully 

 equal to Connecticut grown, is now produced elsewhere, 

 especially in Ohio, Iowa, and Nebraska, where there 

 are quite a number of well-established, large, reputable 

 growers, who, competing with Connecticut, supply the 

 trade from the Atlantic to the Pacific. 



A brief narration of the operations of one prominent 

 grower in Huron County, Ohio, will suffice for them all. 



