THE 
GARDEN YARD 196 
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 
