ON CORN 



ears would constitute a notable addition to the 

 very small company of habitants of the vegetable 

 garden that are prized equally for their ornamen- 

 tal qualities and their food producit. 

 Extra-Early Sweet Corn 



My earlier experiments with corn date back to 

 the Massachusetts period when I was developing 

 the Burbank potato. 



I recall a small success that at the time seemed 

 to me quite notable, gained through a trick in the 

 cultivation of sweet corn, that is not without 

 interest. 



I had learned the value of a very early sweet 

 corn, and I devised a method of forcing the growth 

 so that I was able to put my corn on the market in 

 advance of anyone else in the neighborhood, and 

 therefore to sell it at a fancy price. Many a time 

 I was able to take a buggy load of corn from 

 Lunenberg, where my place was located, to Fitch- 

 burg, and return with $50 or $60 as the selling 

 price of what I could load on a conimon one horse 

 spring wagon. 



I had a complete monopoly of the early sweet 

 corn market in the manufacturing city for three 

 or four years, and my early corn brought usually 

 50 cents per dozen ears, although a week or two 

 later any amount of corn could be bought for a 

 fraction of that sum. 



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