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is sure to mature in a good season. Those who wish so- 

 called " Evergreen " corn, must get seed of this variety 

 which has been grown several degrees farther south than 

 where it is intended to plant it. 



The canning establishments engage farmers to raise 

 sweet corn for them. They furnish the seed and agree 

 to pay a certain price per ton for ears of corn in the green 

 state. In this neighborhood they have been paying 

 eight dollars per ton for ears with the husks on. Many 

 farmers think it does not pay to grow it for less than ten 

 dollars per ton. Of course much depends on the yield 

 per acre. On ordinary farm land with ordinary culture, 

 the yield is small, and the expense of gathering the crop 

 absorbs nearly all the profits; but with a good crop, the 

 profit at ten dollars per ton is entirely satisfactory, 

 especially if you take the value of the stalks into consid- 

 eration. It is a good crop to commence with in the field- 

 garden; it brings in a little ready money every few days 

 at a season when we are quite apt to need it. 



POP-COKN. 



Pop-corn is a small variety grown exclusively for pop- 

 ping. It is rarely fed to animals; though I am not sure 

 that if we could invent some cheap and expeditious 

 method of popping it on a large scale, it would not pay 

 well in many cases to grow this corn and pop it for young 

 animals or those which are sick. A little pig takes very 

 kindly to pop-corn, after it is popped, and I have no 

 doubt it is good for him, and if any of the boys wish to 

 show their pigs at the fair, after they have given the pig 

 a good square meal, and after he has eaten all he will, 

 his pigship would enjoy a dessert of pop-corn, either 

 plain or sweetened with molasses. 



The cultivation of pop-corn is as easy and simple as 

 that of ordinary field corn, but when they first come up, 



