
12 HAND BOOK FOR THE GARDEN 

CORN, SWEET 
Corn does best in a warm, light loam, manured the year before. 
Plant one quart or 2 pounds for two hundred hills; 10 to 15 pounds 
in hills per acre; twenty hills per consumer. Nothing is gained by 
too early planting as the wet, cold weather of early Spring and the 
frosts are apt to destroy the young plants. It is desirable, however, 
to make one or two plantings reasonably early, so as to harvest the 
crop as soon as possible. Usually May 5th and every two weeks until 
July 15th is about right. Or it may be started indoors in April 1n 
boxes and transplanted to the open ground in May. Plant in hills 
two and a half feet apart each way; two inches deep; six seeds per 
hill, dropping the seed so there is an inch or two between them in 
the hill. When six inches high, thin to three plants per hill. Keep 
the suckers down by breaking them off, Cultivation should be shallow. 
Special Seed Corn Varieties 
Northrup, King & Co. have been growing Sweet Corn for nearly 
a half century. During the last several years they have developed 
two new Golden Bantam varieties—one named ““KINGSCROST,"’ the 
other GOLDEN BANTAM EXTRA EARLY, 
“KINGSCROST” is a double cross, which is especially valuable 
to market gardeners, as it is 8 to 10 days earlier than the Standard 
Bantam, the ears are very uniform in size, color and texture, and they 
ripen very evenly. It has frequently happened that ears from, one 
planting have ripened so evenly they could all be picked at once, 
EXTRA EARLY GOLDEN BANTAM. This is‘a recombina- 
tion of 15 inbred strains, producing 8 row ears, 5 to 7 days ezrlier 
than the Standard Golden Bantam, and more uniform in ripening as 
well as in size. 
If yellow or golden ears are wanted, plant Extra Early Golden 
Bantam for early and Bantam Evergreen for late crop. If white ears 
are desired, plant Early Cory for first crop and either Stowell’s Ever- 
green or Country Gentleman for late crop. 
To have the finest Sweet Corn it must be picked in just the right 
condition, that is, when the skin of the grain breaks at the slightest 
puncture. It will be of inferior quality if it is either a few days too 
old or too young. 
CUCUMBER 
Cucumbers do best in warm, rich, sandy loam, mixed with a 
shovelful of well rotted manure per hill. Use one ounce of seed for 
sixty hills; two to three pounds in hills per acre; two hills per 
consumer. Plant about May 15th in hills five feet apart each way, 
three inches apart in the hill, one to two inches deep; eight seeds 
per hill, When in the third leaf, thin to four plants per hill. Train 
the vines in different directions on the ground, removing the fruit 
when it matures to maintain the productiveness of the vines. As 
Cucumbers are subject to several diseases, the old vines and fruit 
should all be destroyed. The crop should not be planted two ‘years 
