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Corn for Canning Factories 
The past season the people of this sec¬ 
tion erected buildings for a canning fac¬ 
tory here; these are leased for five years 
to a Portland. Mie., company, who have 
installed their own machinery. Buildings 
cost about .$8,000, and equipment .$17.(XM) 
or .$18.(XX) more. This is for canning 
swt'ct corn. Our corn crop here the past 
season was almost a total failure, al¬ 
though we have always been able to grow 
good crops, till this year. The people of 
this section have never grown sweet corn 
for a factory. Now for the benefit of 
these farmers I would like to ask advice. 
The points I would like to get informa¬ 
tion on principally are these: 1. Varie¬ 
ties, whether early, medium early, me¬ 
dium late, or late, and the relative yields 
of each. Our seasons are of .such duiii- 
tion here that we h.ave no trouble growing 
Sanford corn to maturity. 2. Proper and 
most profitable distance apart to plant, 
whether drilled rows or planted so it can 
be cultivated both ways. S. Fertilizers, 
and how to apply. 4. Do the stalks make 
good .silage after the ears are removed, 
and is there any difficulty in preserving 
it in any good .silo? a. m. ii. 
8o. Hero. Vt. 
I‘ rom my niiiny years' e.xperience in 
growing sweet corn for the c.-inning f.-ic- 
tory. as well .as my knowledge of tlie 
have come to planting in rows three feet 
apart, the hills two feet apart, with three 
stalks to the hill. Slightly larger yields 
have been obtained with the corn in 
drills, the same number of stalks to the 
foot, but the expense of hoeing and pick¬ 
ing more than offsets the increased yield. 
We use the mixed fertilizer of com- 
merc'c, preferring one heavy in phos¬ 
phoric acid. A good formula for our soil 
is about a .0-7-4 grade. This is api)lied 
in the drill or hill at the time of plant¬ 
ing at the rate of from 4,u0 to BOO 
ja^oiinds to the acre, according to the 
amount of barn manure used. Hard 
wood unleach'ed ashes are used quite ex¬ 
tensively on the Fryeburg sweet corn 
fields, and genei-ally with excellent re¬ 
sults. Under the present condition of the 
potash supply we shall use ashes this 
season. They haA-e a good effect on the 
corn and are valuable for the succeeding 
crojts of grain and grass. 
-I. After using silage made from the 
stiilks of sweet corn for m.nny years, I 
feel Will-ranted in saying there is nothing 
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Fhis Big Elm Stood in the Center oi a Newly Surveyed Road. Cutting the Tree was at First Planned but 
Better Judgment Prevailed, and the Road was Made on Both Sides ofthe Tree 
L.-ike Champlain region. I would Jin-swer 
your correspondent’s question in relation 
to growing the crop as follows: 
1. As .V. M. IT. indicates that they have 
no trouble in growing Sanford corn to 
maturity, I would most certainly recom- 
ineiid the medium early, or rath»-r what 
the Fryeburg sweet corn growers call the 
medium. This variety is known hero as 
the Medium Early Crosby. It is as large 
a variety as it is safe to plant and take 
chances on the seasons as they average. 
Cf course, the later the variety the 
larger the yield. This variety yields with 
a.-; about 2,500 pounds of the cut corn, or 
7,(MK> pounds of the ears as they are 
picked from the stalks, to the acre. There 
are reported yields, every year, however, 
of .3,000 pounds of the cut corn or 10,000 
rounds of the ears to the acre, and evm-y 
season we have acres in our field th.it 
yield this amount. The early varieties 
yield considerably less, and the growth of 
fodder is so small that they find little 
favor with our farmers. In this connec- 
bection I will say it would be a good plan 
for these Vermont farmers to experiment 
with the different varieties on small plots 
before tying themselves to any one va¬ 
riety. 
2. After planting in all conceivable 
ways, from the drill to the check, we 
better for the silo. These stalks make a 
light-colored, lightly acid silage that keeps 
readily in any good silo, and that is read¬ 
ily eaten by all stock. Of course, it must 
be remembered that it hasn’t the feeding 
A'alue. pound for pound, that corn silaged 
AA'ith the ear.s on it has, Alore of it can 
be fed to advantage, and the lack of the 
ears made up by feeding an equivalent of 
cornmeal. Our method of putting this 
sweet corn fodder in the silo has been for 
many year.s to cut it fine, not to hurry 
the filling, to keep the surface level while 
filling ,and to tramp lightly. Follow¬ 
ing these directions will ensure silage 
that it will be a pleasure to feed, and 
that will produce goo<l results fwl to :iuy 
of the animals of the farm. 
U. WALKEK irCKtlEX. 
Destroying Quack Grass 
My experience of killing quack grass 
may be helpful. I had a jiiece of 
Timothy sod full of it. and I plowed it 
in the Spring, worked it. and planted it 
to beans. I cultivated and hoed as well 
as I could; the quack came up thick 
rhen late in the Fall I plowed it quite 
deejily; the next Spring I worked over 
with spring-tooth harrow and the ground 
was covered with dead roots. Then I 
plowed and fitted it again and planted 
beans, and there was very little left; 
worked it that Summer and have not 
seen any since on that piece, c. E. r. 
Western New York. 
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