HOME VEGETABLE GARDENING 
CORN— SWEET OR SUGAR 
RUE quality sweet corn can never be bought on 
market. After the ears are ‘‘pulled,” the quality 
deteriorates very rapidly and by the time bought corn 
reaches the dinner table the kernels have generally lost 
their juicy sweetness. 
The introduction of earty, compact growing sorts makes 
the growing of sweet corn practicable in even small gardens. 
And it is a fortunate fact that, among these early sorts of 
small growth, we find some of the sweetest. A patch of 
six rows, each fifteen feet long, need not occupy more than 
fifteen feet square. Yet, in normal seasons, and planted 
to pedigreed strains, it should yield between ten and 
fifteen dozen ears. 
Sweet corn, from the home gardener’s standpoint, may 
be divided into kinds with white and yellow kernels. 
Among both we find early, midseason, and late sorts. 
The earliest will have ears ready for table in as short a 
time as seventy days, while the larger, later sorts, re- 
quire ninety to one hundred days. The ears may be con- 
sidered ready for pulling when the silk has turned black, 
as illustrated on page 99. 
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