THE BONNEWITZ GARDENS, VAN WERT, OHIO 
done, I encouraged her by saying, that I believed her sweet corn 
was valuable enough to pay off her mortgage, and I volunteered to 
try to help her accomplish this. 
Fortunately, early in the spring her son had planted an unusual 
amount of it in her garden. He showed me all that was left of the 
seed after the garden had been planted, (less than ten pounds on 
the cob), and as she needed $142.50 immediately, for a payment on 
her mortgage, interest and other necessary expenses, I paid her 
that amount for it, (over $14.00 per pound), and I am glad to say 
that her health began to improve. 
Nine pounds, ten ounces of seed corn on the cob , for which I paid $14-2.50 — 
over $14.00 per pound. 
When the corn in her garden was ready for use, I took sample 
baskets of it, to a produce buyer with a large selling organization, 
and after eating of it in his own home, he has promised that during 
the 1935 season, he will send his own trucks twenty-six miles to 
her farm to get this corn, and that owing to its unusual quality, he 
will pay a higher price for it than for any other corn. I took other 
baskets of this corn to a produce buyer in a city thirty-six miles 
from my own home, and this buyer also was so impressed with the 
quality of the corn, that he suggested that I should grow 25 acres 
of it, and that he would send his trucks to my farm and pay me the 
highest market price for his share of it, and retail it at a price 
higher than ordinary sweet corn. You will agree with me that Aunt 
Mary has reason to feel encouraged with the approval “quantity 
buyers” have given to the quality of her corn. 
A few days before frost came, I took a truck to Aunt Mary’s 
home, and gathered all her green corn, and brought it to my own 
home, one hundred and twenty miles distant, where I husked the 
corn and impaled the individual ears on nails driven into studding, 
which I had erected in the basement. I placed in the window, an 
exhaust fan with a capacity of one thousand cubic feet of air per 
minute, and in this manner by continually drawing fresh dry air 
over it, I ripened enough corn to plant 25 acres of it this spring, and 
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