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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
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MarcwH. 1908 
110 
SILVER MAPLE, THE CHEAPEST LARGE TREE 
IN WESTBURY NURSERIES 
Strong, Healthy, 
FQ) they cannot be surpassed. 
Your Time Saved 
By planting large trees prepared for vigorous 
growth. 
They have broad tops and will give shade this 
summer. Next year they will give a good shade 
and hold up a hammock. They save you Io to 
15 vears. 
We have the local conditions to grow the nu- 
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safe shipment. 
Offered at low rates and cheaper than you can 
grow them. 
Height Diameter Spread Brice packer 
.0.'). 
Norway Maple 16ft. 4in. 6-8 ft. $9.00 to 18.00 
os es 20-25 ft. 5in. 5-15 ft. 20.00 to 26.00 
Silver Maple 20ft. 4in. 8-12ft. 6.00 
ee “s Aft. gin. 8-12 ft 10.00 
ee ee 26 ft. 5in. 10-15 ft 14.00 
es 28 ft. 6-9in. 12-16 ft. 25.00 
Sycamore Maple Mit. 44in. 9-12 ft. 12.00 to 18.00 
fe Ge 26 ft. 5-7 in, 10-15 ft. 16.00 to 25.00 
Pin Oak 20 ft. 4in 12 ft. 16.00 
eee 22 ft. 5 in 12 ft 22.00 
boa AE 26 ft 6 in 12 ft. 35.00 
Linden Basswood 18 ft 4in 10 ft 11.00 
ce ee 28 ft 6 in 12 ft 26.00 
Trees up to 30 feet spread delivered on Hicks’ 
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253 BROADWAY NEW YORK CITY 
A New Englander’s Experience 
in Raising Field Corn 
HEN I returned to the farm, several 
years ago, I was sure that no crop was 
more important for the dairy farmer than 
corn, both for grain and for soiling, and I had 
also a picture, in my mind’s eye, of the corn 
I wished to grow. ‘The ears were large and 
long with small cob and large kernel and 
borne on a large leafy stalk for fodder. The 
corn for green feed was also very large with 
a great many leaves, and I am afraid that I 
did not see many ears on it. 
Being unable to go to the farm until the 
end of June, I had engaged a man to do the 
work. He had put all the stable manure on 
an acre of potatoes, an acre of field corn and 
three-fourths of an acre of Stowell’s Ever- 
green for soiling. A commercial fertilizer 
was added in the hill and then he took care 
_of them. There were no weeds in any of 
those crops. As a result there were two 
| hundred bushels of ear corn and enough 
fodder corn to feed my cows through August 
and early September, besides nine large 
loads to put in the barn. This was the result 
of enough fertilizer and thorough cultivation. 
But I wanted to do better with corn, 
especially field corn. That which the man 
had grown had rather small kernels and not 
very abundant foliage. So I determined 
to get a large sort. I did so and as a result 
had a large crop of not very sound corn. 
However, I learned one lesson; when buying 
seed corn from a seedsman, be sure that the 
seed he advertises as an eighty or ninety 
day sort ripened in eighty or ninety days 
under conditions of climate similar to your 
own, or you may find that it requires one 
hundred or more days to ripen it for you. 
I had noticed some nice seed corn at our 
fair, grown by a man who lived seven miles 
south of me, So I bought my seed from him. 
It was of the Longfellow variety, but I 
planted it a little too close in the rows as I 
found out in this way: I had to cut a road 
through it to get some hay on the farther side, 
and while the whole piece was good, on both 
sides of this road the corn ripened earlier, 
and the ears were larger. Had I put the 
corn three and one-half feet apart in the row, 
I should have had more and better corn than 
I did at three feet. 
The farmer from whom IJ had bought my 
seed had told me that he intended always 
to plant his corn about May rath, saying he 
preferred to have his corn cut off by the frost 
in the spring rather than in the fall, and I 
had noticed that he always had good corn. 
Observation since has convinced me that 
he was right. The next year I saw a crop 
that was put in early cut back almost to the 
ground by the frost, yet coming on again 
and producing a good crop; while right beside 
it some rows planted several days later, 
receiving the same cultivation but held back 
from starting by dry weather, failed to ripen 
their grain. 
Another year a seeding of a large sort, 
badly injured, was replanted with Early 
Canada flint, and yielded 130 bushels of 
ears to the acre. I bought this seed on the 
cob, and noticed that my crop had larger 
