CELERY— CORN. 41 
Market.—Celery is an important item in the seed 
trade. At present, most of the seed used in the United 
States is grown here; nine-tenths of it being produced 
more cheaply in central California than elsewhere, 
though seed of first quality is also grown in the Atlantic 
Coast section. 
The annual California production approximates 25,- 
000 pounds. In a favorable season, aseed yield is from 
400 to 500 pounds per acre; prices paid to growers 
range from twenty to thirty cents per pound. 
Seed of certain sorts is imported from Europe; this 
applies particularly to the variety known as Paris 
Golden Self-Blanching. French growers are paid from 
fifty to sixty cents per pound for this seed. Even Cali- 
fornia market growers of celery of this variety prefer 
French seed; the crop resulting therefrom proving more 
satisfactory than when grown from domestic seed. 
CORN. 
That which is of first importance when growing seed 
corn is, to exercise the greatest care to avoid mixture 
of crop. Sugar corn must not be grown near field corn, 
and to keep a variety strictly pure, one kind of sugar or 
field corn must not be planted near another kind, nor 
in an adjoining field. Neither should corn be planted 
on land upon which any variety of corn was raised the 
year previous, to prevent mixture from ‘‘ volunteer 
plants.”’ 
Stock-seed should have been carefully selected from 
stalks whose habit of growth was characteristic of the 
variety, and from the earliest, largest, and finest ears, 
which in their shape and size, color and formation of 
grain, and time of maturity, were distinctly true to 
variety. This method is also particularly recom- 
mended when saving seed for private use. 
