44 THE SEED-GROWER. 
This grower began in an humble way in 1878, at the age 
of eighteen, on one acre of rented land and a capital of 
five dollars, which went for the purchase of stock-seed. 
His first year’s crop of sugar corn realized the small 
sum of eighteen dollars, and was shelled by hand and 
cleaned by dropping the seed from a hog-house door to 
a blanket spread upon the ground beneath. Now to 
such proportions has his business grown that in a 
single season his shipments will amount to about 175,- 
000 bushels of shelled seed corn and 3,000 barrels on 
ears, requiring four large power shellers and cleaners, 
besides acres of floor space, and thousands of feet of 
bin room for storage. His main warehouse is one hun- 
dred and sixty feet long by thirty feet wide, and two 
stories in height. None of his output is sold at retail, 
all being disposed of to seedsmen or seed-dealers. 
A crop of sugar corn in a favorable season is from 40 
to 50 bushels of shelled seed per acre, for the early 
dwarf varieties; from 50 to 60 bushels for the tall, late 
sorts. Prices paid to growers range from $1.00 to $1.25 
per bushel; the cheaper price being for Stowell’s Ever- 
green and other late sorts; prices to sub-growers range 
from 65 to 80 cents per bushel for sugar corn. For 
field corn prices rule from 45 to 60 cents per bushel, 
according to variety. 
CORN SALAD. 
A seed-crop is matured quickly in one season. Seed 
is sown early in spring, in rows two feet apart, plants 
being thinned to four inches apart. Ripening of seed 
occurs unevenly; but when the bulk has ripened, the 
crop may be mowed, or plants may be pulled and laid 
on cloths, and left to dry in the sunafew days. In 
the barn or drying room stalks should be spread out 
