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SWEET CORN— WHITE SORTS FOR MIDSEASON 
T HE advancing season brings both ears of larger size 
and kernels of better quality. A close rival to 
Pocahontas described on preceding page is Metropolitan, 
bearing ten to twelve rowed ears, ten inches long, in 
ninety days from date of sowing seeds. About the same 
time, Original Crosby s (ear to left above) bears its thick, 
eight-inch ears, with twelve to fourteen rows of broad, 
deep kernels of remarkable quality. But the prize for 
quality in this class is due Howling Mob which, in ninety 
to ninety-five days from date seeds were sown, surprises 
the planter with twelve-rowed ears nine to ten inches long. 
Considering general adaptability to widely varying 
soils and climates, Howling Mob must be considered the 
leading second early white-grained sweet corn of quality. 
(See ear to right above.) To get all the quality that is 
in any corn out of it, ears should be picked when a slight 
pressure of a finger-nail against the kernels bursts the 
skin and causes the milky juice to appear. 
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