CORN 
The advantages that hybrid sweet corn has over regular 
varieties are many. There is greater uniformity of plant 
and ear. There won't be little spindly plants along with 
the good ones; each plant will be a producer. You'll get 
as much as double the yield. But that isn't the whole 
story. You'll find that the hybrids are more tender, more 
flavorful, deeper kerneled, and a lot better to eat. There's 
no sense in casting adjectives about with a wanton hand. 
But if you choose your hybrids carefully (a careful choice 
follows), you'll be delightfully surprised both out in the 
garden and at the table with the rare 
delicacy sweet corn can be. 
On the early side of the list, for the first 
ears in the summer, fresh from the husk 
instead of the can, there are two good 
hybrids: Hybrid Golden Hummer and 
Tendergold. If you shy from placing all 
your garden hopes in these new-fangled 
hybrids there are the old stand-bys (and 
good corn, mind you). Golden Hummer, 
Sunshine, Golden Bantam and Leon¬ 
ard's Early. All the varieties mentioned 
above are yellow, except Leonard's Early. 
For the middle season crop, taking about eighty to 
eighty-five days to the eating stage, there are three 
mighty fine hybrids. From Soobred you'll get more 
corn and better tasting corn than you've ever had 
in your garden before. It's the corn that young fel¬ 
low is lighting into on the previous page. Golden 
Cross Bantam is one of the oldest of the yellow sweet 
