THE igg 



GARDEN YARD 



attended to, the plants should yield from 8000 

 to 10,000 ears to the acre. 



The insects and diseases include wire-worms, 

 cut- worms, chinch-bug and corn-stalk disease. 

 Short rotation, including fall cultivation of the 

 land, will check the wire-worms. See Cornell 

 Bulletin 107. Treatment for cut-worms is fully 

 described in Cornell Bulletin 104. Ditching, 

 plowing and harrowing are bad for the chinch- 

 bug and good for your corn. Read Ohio Bulle- 

 tin 69, Kentucky Bulletin 74, and New York 

 Report 15, pp. 531-533. 



It would be fruitless to take up your time 

 with a discussion of corn-stalk disease here, 

 when you can get it all by simply sending for 

 Nebraska Bulletin 52. 



OKRA OR GUMBO. 



Although okra is really a Southern States 

 perennial, it is cultivated as an annual, the seeds 

 being sown every spring. It is grown for its 

 pods, which are cut while still young and ten- 

 der, and are much used for soups and stews. 

 Of recent years the pods are also canned and 

 dried for use in winter. 



Okra takes about the same treatment as sweet 

 corn, the seeds being sown where the plant is to 

 grow, except in the Northern States. There the 



