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and have found that Cosmopolitan for early and 

 Stowell's Evergreen or Burpee's White Evergreen 

 for late give the best results. Generally the crop 

 is shipped in barrels, sometimes to New York, but 

 usually to our local market, where the sale is, as 

 a rule, satisfactory. What few culls we have are 

 fed to pigs, and the stover to cattle. 



" The soil is a sandy loam. No special crop rota- 

 tion is practiced, although the same land is not 

 cropped with corn oftener than once in four years. 

 Being a truck farm, it is inconvenient to practice 

 ordinary crop rotation. About 360 pounds to the 

 acre of 3-6-8 commercial fertilizer is used. This 

 costs $31 a ton. It is applied 2 to 4 inches from 

 the hill at planting time, or immediately after. 



" Early in April the land is plowed, and until the 

 seed is sown, is harrowed to get it in fine condition. 

 As soon as the season will permit, we plant by 

 hand in check rows 3 feet or 3 feet 10 inches apart. 

 Usually the latter distance is the more profitable. 

 Four or five days after planting, a weeder is run 

 through the field, and as soon as we can see the 

 rows a one-horse cultivator is started. At the third 

 cultivation a two-horse riding cultivator is em- 

 ployed as long as we can get over the corn. 



" Sometimes we use nitrate of soda as a top-' 

 dressing during the latter part of summer, so as to 

 force the plants a little. About a tablespoonful is 

 applied a few inches from the hill and then cul- 

 tivated in." 



CORN AFTER STRAWBERRIES 



In the fruit section of Atlantic county. New 

 Jersey, corn is not a popular crop. The soil is sand 

 or gravel, somewhat leachy and often dry. Corn 



