
WHERE TO PLANT IT 
Sweet corn should be planted in a sunny, 
well-drained location. Any good soil will 
produce excellent corn, but for best re- 
sults, choose rich, warm, loamy soil. Soil 
should not be too acid. However, acidity 
can be corrected by spading in about 50 
Ibs. of ground limestone per 1000 square 
feet. 
Do not plant near field corn, as pollen 
from the two may cross, and give you 
tough, hard, starchy sweet corn. Also 
keep well away from pop corn. 
PREPARING THE SEED BED 
Heavy soil, for best results, should be 
plowed late in the fall, just before freez- 
ing. If fall plowing is not accomplished, 
spring plowing should be done when soil 
is slightly moist (not wet). 
When you are ready to plant your 
seed, spade and rake ground once again. 
Go over it thoroughly until soil is almost 
pulverized. Then smooth it out with back 
Olgrake, 
HOW TO PLANT 
Before the era of Michael-Leonard’s hybrid 
sweet corn, in order to have much of a 
continuous crop, you had to make several 
plantings at different times throughout 
the season. Now, however, you can select 
several of the different maturing hybrids 
described on the preceding pages, plant 
them all at the same time —and have 
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sweet corn “coming on” all summer long. 
No second, third or fourth plantings are 
needed. They ripen as maturity dates 
specify, and no two ripen at the same 
time! This also enables you to do all your 
planting when the ground is in best con- 
dition. 
Sweet corn can be planted in hills or 
rows. If in rows, mark them about four 
feet apart, place kernels one foot apart, 
cover with one inch of fine pressed soil. 
If in hills, space them three to four feet 
apart each way, plant five or six kernels 
in a hill. When corn is about six inches 
high, thin to three or four plants to a hill. 
CARE AND CUZTIVATION 
Only cultivation needed is enough to keep 
all weeds under control until plants are 
one or two feet high. After that plants 
shade ground, discourage weed growth. 
Do not cultivate after tassels appear! 
Youll not have many drouth or dry 
weather worries with Michael-Leonard’s 
hybrids, but this great corn is no substi- 
tute for water. If it is at all possible to 
artificially water your plot of sweet corn 
during dry weather, by all means take 
advantage of that opportunity. 
IMPORTANT 
This seed is produced by crossing various 
inbred lines of corn. Each seed is, in itself, 
the product of great care and work of our 
staff of corn breeders. Into that seed they 
have combined all of the fine corn quali- 
ties of the various inbred lines. When you 
plant it and harvest the crop, you get all 
of the results they have been striving for. 
But, Mother Nature says, “That is the 
end.” You cannot save the seed from 
these sweet corn hybrids for growing an- 
other plot next year. For that reason, if 
you want the same excellent sweet corn 
each and every year, we must produce 
NEW SEED each and every year. On 
page 8 we tell just how this seed is pro- 
duced to help you grow the world’s finest 
sweet corn. 
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