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early crops of green peas, snap beans and cabbage with 

 any of the last three varieties and, at the last cultivation 

 of the Irish potatoes, drop a few grains of corn in alter- 

 nate middles three feet apart. In all plantings after 

 June first, plant cow-peas with the corn, and as fast as 

 the crops of roasting-ears are used, remove the stalks 

 and cultivate the cow-peas. 



The most serious enemy to young corn is the hud- 

 tvorm, which bores into the young plant when quite small 

 and destroys the bud. The only known preventive is to 

 soak the seed until well swollen and then stir it in water 

 containing coal-tar and crude carbolic acid, which covers 

 the grain and repels not only this insect but other 

 enemies. The cutworm, if not destroyed by winter 

 plowing, is troublesome to shallow planted corn, but fre- 

 quently cuts the plant above the bud and hence does 

 not destroy it. The corn-ivorm (cotton -boll worm) 

 attacks the tender ears before they are ready for the 

 table and often disfigures the ears. No preventive of 

 this pest is known. The hill -hug punctures the stalk 

 near the ground and deposits its eggs, and these develop 

 into a grub which subsists upon the interior of the stalk. 

 This insect is often destructive to field corn, but its 

 attack is generally too late to seriously injure garden 

 crops. If corn in the roasting-ear stage is threatened by 

 approaching frost, the whole stalk may be harvested and 

 stored under shelter, where the ears will remain fresh 

 and edible for ten days. 



The advent of the cooking -stove has brought into 

 disuse some of the old methods of preparing "roasting- 

 ears," such as roasting before the fire until brown and 



