52 JOHNSON & STOKES 
SWEET CORN. 
There is no money crop more available to the farm gar- 
dener than sweet corn. It will grow anywhere, and the 
young ears are always in demand. Any sod land plowed 
shallow will yield a crop of sweet corn. It is easy in this 
latitude to have an unbroken succession of marketable ears 
from July ist to October ist, or even somewhat earlier and 
later. 
Shallow plowing and the use of a little fertilizer or com- 
post in the hills will put the ground in order. A complete 
fertilizer is best. A compost containing hen manure is 
excellent. 
Planting — Eight or ten quarts of seed are required to 
plant an acre of corn in hills, allowing for replanting of what 
is injured by grubs or other causes. The larger varieties 
should be planted 4 feet by 3; the rows 4 feet apart and the 
hills 3 feet apart, with not more than three stalks in a hill. 
The smaller varieties may be grown much closer — 3 feet by 2. 
Any method may be used in laying out a corn field that will 
give each stalk (of the large kinds) the equivalent of 4 
square feet of ground space. The dwarf sweet corns demand 
about half that space. 
Varieties — The sweet corns require from sixty to eighty 
days to produce ears fit for boiling. The earliest varieties 
are small, and are lacking in sweetness as compared to the 
best intermediate types. Still, the early prices are so much 
better than midsummer prices, that the early varieties will 
Sweet Corn. — For first early, we recommend Burlington Hybrid 
and Mammoth White Cory. The former closely resembles a true sugar 
corn in appearance. For second early, Early Champion and New Early 
Evergreen; for late, original Stowell's Evergreen, Country Gentleman, 
Zig Zag Evergreen. See "Johnson & Stokes' Garden and Farm 
Manual" for descriptions of varieties. 
