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start, but it is no good in dry soil. The manure 
acts like an individual hot-bed for each hill of 
corn. 
Where this plan is used, thorough culture must 
be given, or the corn roots will remain in the 
manure during growing time and suffer from 
drought. 
Corn is not the only crop that is benefited by 
the use of the feet in planting. Wherever the 
soil must be compacted about the newly planted 
seed, the feet can be used to advantage. So 
true is this, that Peter Henderson, the well- 
known New York gardener and seedsman, wrote 
a pamphlet called “'The Use of the Hands and 
Feet in Planting,” which is sent free upon ap- 
plication. It is well worth reading. 
When it first comes into the market, sweet 
corn usually brings 25 cents a dozen ears; that is 
the time for the wide-awake gardener to sell his 
crop. Later it may fall to five cents a dozen, 
and usually sells as low as 10 cents; there is no 
profit in that. 
If you pick the first ears as soon as they are 
well set, the second setting will be much better 
for it. (Very small, immature ears are fine 
cooked or raw, to eat, cob and all, but our people 
are not used to that.) It takes about a peck 
of corn to plant an acre in hills, and, if well 
