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THE BARTELDES 
SEED COMPANY 
Barteldes Selected Sweet Corn 
In ordering Sweet Corn by the pound to be sent by mail please add 
postage. One pound of Sweet Corn is equal to "over three-fourths 
quart. 
Have you ever gone out into the garden, picked some Sweet Corn 
and then prepared it immediately for the table ? Unless you have 
eaten Sweet Corn handled in this way you don't know what real Sweet 
Corn is. After Sweet Corn is picked it loses its sugar content very 
rapidly and for this reason the Sweet Corn which as. been picked a 
day or two ago is nothing like that which is freshly picked. 
Even a medium sized garden has room for a row or two of Sweet 
Corn. If you have room for only a few rows be sure that you try 
Golden Bantam for Early and Country Gentleman for late. These 
two are wonderfully delicious. 
Sweet Corn should be planted on rich land and cultivated the same 
as Indian Corn. Beginning as soon as the soil is warm, successive 
plantings may be made every two or three weeks until late summer. 
Another way to get a continuous crop is to plant early, medium and 
late varieties. The seed should be planted about 2 inches deep, in 
drills 3 feet apart and thinned to a single stalk every 10 to 14 inches 
in the row. The cultivation should be frequent and thorough, all 
weeds should be kept down, and all suckers removed from around the 
base of the plant. ,«i 
On account of fertilization it is best not to plant a single variety 
in a long row but to plant each variety in blocks of several short rows. 
If you want some corn very early you can get it by planting a few 
hills in paper pots in the house. Do this about three or four weeks 
before planting time. Put about four seeds in each pot, water fre- 
quently and keep in a cool place. When danger of frost is past plant 
them, pots and all in the field. 
Sweet Corn is at its very best when a slight pressure of the finger 
nail will cause the kernel to burst and a milky juice appears. 
One pound will plant 275 hills, and 14 pounds will plant about an 
acre in drills. 
.GOLDEN BAN- 
TAM is the most 
tender, sweetest, 
richest, and best 
evergreen Sweet 
Corn in existence. 
It produces strong, 
sturdy stalks, grow- 
ing about four feet 
high. Is extremely 
hardy . and can be 
grown from the Gulf 
■to the Great Lakes. 
Each stalk produces 
three to four fine 
ears 5 to 6 inches 
long, having eight 
rows of sweet ker- 
nels. Golden Ban- 
... % ■l^Wm^''' ^ tarn is the quickest 
,, , , ^ . 0 , to mature and will 
Golden bantam Sweet Com. giye . e 1 . 1 e r and 
quicker results than any other sweet corn we know of. 
We have found it remarkably free of worms. Don't fail 
to have some of this splendid corn in your garden next 
year. Pkt., 5c; lb., 20c;" 5 lbs., 95c; 10 lbs., $1.80. 
If you are planting corn for the market be sure that 
you plant a liberal quantity of Golden Bantam. Let your 
customers have a few ears to try early in the season and 
they will take all you can supply. 
EXTRA EARLY ADAMS. This is not a true sweet corn, 
but on account of its hardiness and its round, hard grains 
it can be planted much earlier than the wrinkled sort 
sugar corn. The ears are well filled with tender white 
kernels. It is usually rea-Av a week earlier than the Cory. 
Pkt., 5c; lb., 20c; 2 lbs., 35c; 10 lbs., $1.60. 
HOWLING MOB. A few years ago a gardener de- 
veloped a new variety of Sweet Corn and after his cus- 
tomers had tried it just once they clamored for it so 
loudly that he called it the "Howling Mob." This corn 
is of good size, but early and at the same time has the 
excellent^ flavor of the later varieties. The stalks are 
strong, vigorous, about five feet in height and bear two 
ears. The ears are from seven to nine inches in length, 
of good shape and well covered by a . heavy husk which 
protects the ear from worms. Pkt, 5c: lb. ' 20c: 5 lbs., 
95c; 10 lbs., $1.80. 
Howling -Mob Sweet Corn. 
