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season. By choosing well, one may plant all his 

 corn in May and have it ripen week by week, from 

 the last of July till September, according to variety. 

 Then a last planting of an early sort, Hke the Ban- 

 tam, about the fourth of July, will give one more 

 picking after the late May-planted varieties are 

 finished. 



Crosby, a second early, large, white corn, is a 

 favorite everywhere. Potter's Excelsior and Coun- 

 try Gentleman are excellent later varieties of strong 

 growth. Country Gentleman has uneven rows of 

 very deep, sweet kernels ; but it passes its best 

 stage rapidly and soon becomes rather tough. For 

 a last sowing, Stozvell's Evergreen is a variety which 

 ripens in early September throughout the northern 

 states. Its habit of ripening .gradually makes it 

 especially worth while for the home garden. 



Planting Corn 



Inadvisability of Starting in Cold Frame. — A 



good many articles on corn planting speak of start- 

 ing the seed in window boxes and cold frames and 

 then transplanting to the field, but it is hard to see 

 much use in this, for several reasons. Early corn 

 does not tend to rot in the ground so much as beans 

 do, if the weather is wet and cold. The sprout is 

 fully as delicate as the seed, and if the weather is 

 safe for the corn to appear above ground, it will 

 usually do so. If set out, the small blades are very 



