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By proper management in the times of planting, 

 a constant supply can easily be had from July until 

 frost. For home use, by planting four different 

 times, three weeks apart, commencing on the 1st of 

 May, fresh Green Corn, for boiling, can be furnished 

 daily from the garden. 



In growing Sweet Corn for market, farmers 

 usually make two plantings ; the first one, for the 

 early crop, which should be planted four feet apart 

 each way, about the 1st of May, in case the weather 

 is settled. A well-worked sandy loam is preferable 

 for the first crop, because such kind of soil can be 

 planted earlier, and, consequently, the corn will be 

 ready for market sooner. Earliness is very import- 

 ant to those who grow corn for market. When it 

 first comes, it will bring two to three dollare per 

 hundred ears. As the season advances and the sup- 

 ply is greater, prices fall to from seventy-five cents 

 to one dollar per hundred ears. 



Before planting, the ground should be ploughed 

 and haiTOwed once or twice, marked out 4x4, and 

 some well-rotted manure or other compost applied in 

 the hill, at the rate of ten or twelve two-horse loads 

 to the acre. 



The corn is then dropped and covered, putting 

 five kernels to each hill. At the first hoeing, only 

 three stocks should be left growing in a hill. The 

 culture between the rows is done with a horse-culti- 

 vator, running often enough to keep down the weeds 

 and to loosen the surface. When the Corn is planted 

 early in May, the crop will be marketed by the mid- 

 dle of August, in time to sow Yellow Stone or Strap- 



