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SWEET CORN— WHEN AND HOW TO SOW 
N OTHING is gained by planting seeds before both 
ground and weather have become thoroughly warm. 
Sweet corn seeds are soft and will quickly rot in cold soil. 
The new seedlings are very delicate and cold weather 
checks their development so that later plantings often do 
much better than early ones. A pint of seeds is sufficient 
to sow seventy-five feet of row. 
Two methods of growing corn are open to the planter: 
it may be sown in hills or in rows. The nature of the soil 
is generally the determining factor which way to grow 
the crop. It is better to manure poor soil in hills, two and 
a half to three feet apart and to plant five or six seeds to 
each hill, reducing the plants to the three strongest later on. 
But in soil of fair fertility, the better method is to 
sow the corn in rows, about three inches deep, with two or 
three feet between the rows, depending on variety. Never 
plant one long, single row of a kind, but plant corn in 
“blocks” of several short rows, side by side. 
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