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full particulars on this subject I would again refer to my work, 

 " Gardening for Profit" 



CORN (SWEET). 



It may seem presumption in me to instruct the farmer how to grow 

 corn; but as their methods of growing this special variety of corn for 

 table use are probably not as well known as for the field varieties, I 

 will here give them. All the varieties of sweet corn may either be 

 sown in rows four and one-half feet apart and about six or eight 

 inches between the seeds, or planted in hills at distances of three or 



TOM THUMB SWEET COBN. 



EVEKGKEKN SUGAB CORK. 



four feet each way, according to the variety of corn or richness of the 

 soil. The smaller and earlier varieties, as the Tom Thumb and Early 

 Minnesota, may be planted in hills two feet apart each way. The 

 taller the variety or the richer the soil, the greater should be the dis- 

 tance apart. Such later varieties as Egyptian and Evergreen require 

 to be planted at least three feet apart, or even more, on very rich 

 soil. We make our first plantings in this latitude about the middle 

 of May, and continue successive plantings every two weeks until the 

 last week in July. In more southern latitudes, or in warm, light 

 soils at the north, planting is begun a month earlier and continued a 

 month later. I have repeatedly sold it in the New York markets, 

 realizing as high as $200 per acre, and this, too, at the first wholesale 



