106 GARDENING FOR PROFIT. 



The soil best suited for Corn for an early crop is a W3ll 

 enriched sandy loam. The planting should never be 

 done until the weather is settled and warm, as heat is 

 indispensable to the healthy growth of Corn. We make 

 our first plantings in this vicinity about the middle of 

 May, and continue succession plantings every two or 

 three weeks until the first week in July, which date, in 

 this latitude, is the latest at which we can plant and be 

 sure of a crop of "roasting ears." In more southerly 

 latitudes planting is begun a month earlier and con- 

 tinued a month later. The crop is hardly profitable 

 enough for the market gardener where land is high in 

 price, but the farmers realize double the price for Sweet 

 Corn when sold m the green state in our markets, that 

 they do for Ripe Corn, besides, as the ground can be 

 cleared when the ears are thus sold in August, it can be 

 used afterwards for Turnips. 



About twenty years ago I came into possession, about 

 the 1st of May, of a four-acre plot that had lain for 

 many years in sod. It was then too late to be able to 

 break it up for planting any of the finer kinds of vege- 

 tables, so I decided to plant it with Sweet Corn. Ac- 

 cordingly, I had the sod plowed over flat in such a 

 manner as would best rot it. I was careful to have the 

 furrows straight, and at every five feet where they lapped 

 together I dropped Sweet Corn at four or five inches 

 apart, so that when it started to grow it stood in regular 

 lines five feet distant. The Corn was planted about May 

 30th, and hoed around the line as it grew, the space 

 between being run over by the harrow cultivator. By 

 the middle of June, from the action of the cultivator, 

 the space between the rows of Corn was in fine friable 

 condition, and Celery was planted in double rows, ten 

 inches apart. The shade given by the Corn was of no 

 injury to the Celery at this early stage of its growth, and 

 as the Corn crop was sold and the stalks were cleared off 



