SWEET CORN 



vegetable crops. Less attention is generally- 

 given by these truck growers than is given 

 by the market gardeners, and as a rule the 

 returns from the acre are less than for the 

 market gardens. 



IMPORTANCE 



According to the census for 1910, in the 

 United States there are 48,514 farms report- 

 ing growing sweet corn. The number of 

 acres devoted to this crop is 178,224, and 

 the value of the sweet corn crop is 

 35,936,419. This is on farms which report 

 one acre or pver in the various states 

 throughout the country. It is practically 

 impossible to separate from these figures 

 the number of acres on the farms and the 

 value of the product produced by market 

 gardeners and truck growers for commercial 

 eating, other than canning. So this figure will 

 have to be used as the importance of both. 



The leading state in regard to number of 

 farms reporting is New York, which is fol- 

 lowed by other states, where the industry is 

 of importance in the following order: 



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