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Other sorts may be as good or better. Each grower should test 

 them and select the best for his conditions. Many growers do not 

 care to purchase seed, but raise their own, often obtaining a strain 

 that for their conditions is far superior to any sort they can buy. 



Home Gardens 



The home gardener may choose any of the sorts mentioned 

 above or from any of those recommended by reliable seedsmen. 

 Many home gardeners are favoring a yellow sweet corn. The 

 Golden Bantam or its improved selection may be used to supply 

 this taste. Plantings in succession of just this one variety should 

 give corn throughout the period desired. 



PLANTING 



Where corn is to be grown with horse culture, the rows should 

 be from thirty to forty-two inches apart, five or six seeds being 

 planted in a so-called hill, the hills being from eighteen to thirty- 

 six inches apart in the row. Later, thin so that but three strong- 

 stalks remain in each hill. Where all hand work is to be prac- 

 ticed, the rows may be somewhat closer — from eighteen to twenty- 

 eight inches apart — and the hills may be the same distance apart 

 in the row as mentioned for horse culture. In some instances 

 planting in rows and later thinning plants to one foot apart may 

 be practiced. The seed should be planted not deeper than one 

 and one-half inches ; one inch is even better. Straight rows 

 should be insured by the use of horse or hand-drawn marker, or 

 even on a small scale with the garden line. 



Corn should not be planted too early ; as a general rule not until 

 after danger of frost is past, probably May 15 to June 1, or even 

 a little later in some locations. The late planting will give ample 

 opportunity for the soil to warm up. The seed may be planted 

 by hand, the grower passing down the row, and, by the use of a 

 hoe, removing a small portion of dirt where the hill is to be located. 

 Fertilizer may be placed in this excavation followed by a little 

 soil. Three to eight seeds are then dropped over this soil, cov- 

 ered and firmed. Pressure of the soil should be given against 

 the seed. It is posible to use the man-power drill machines for 

 planting, dropping seed either in hills or drills. Where these 



