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New York Ag@riovtturaL Experiment STATION. 559 
Corn. 
For corn the ground was prepared and manured in the same 
way as for pole beans. See p. 553. Cleancultivation was given 
throughout the season. A mixture of wood ashes and bone meal 
was applied five or six times during the season, the total amount 
used being at the rate of about three hundred pounds per acre. 
Sweet corn.—The sweet corn was husked’ and packed on excel- 
sior in boxes similar to those described for beans but twice as wide. 
See p. 548. Three-eighths inch slats were fastened over the tops 
of the boxes after they were filled and the boxes were then 
packed in the same kind of crates as those used for beans. The 
following is a list of the varieties shipped : 
