
PLAN YOUR PLANTINGS FOR GREATER PROFITS 

Sweet Corn Planting Suggestions 
Getting the most out of sweet corn depends considerably on choos- 
ing hybrids and timing plantings so as best to meet one’s particular 
situation. For instance, home gardeners, roadside stand gardeners 
and some — but not all — market gardeners, should plant hybrids 
that will provide a continuous harvest from the earliest date possible 
to the very last of the season. For some markets, only the earliest 
possible corns pay well; for others, the latest; and for some, there 
are in-between periods when prices are usually highest. 
Our series of hybrids, ripening at intervals helps you plant to 
meet your market requirements. Note that the later hybrids, in gen- 
eral, yield more and better corn and so should be used in preference 
to the early ones when time permits. 
AIMING FOR THE EARLY MARKETS 
Early market prices usually are highest. To make the most of 
them, we. suggest one or two small successive plantings of SPAN- 
CROSS, before weather conditions are quite safe. Select early ground. 
Use our treated seed. Do not plant too deeply. Then when conditions 
are safe, plant at one time, all the SPANCROSS you can pick and 
sell in 3 days and all the MARCROSS you can market in 4 days. This 
furnishes sweet corn for the first week or two of the season. If it is 
wanted for a longer period, make a planting of Carmeleross or Old 
Hickory at the same time. If any of the first planting is lost, replant 
with any yellow sweet corn or other crops. One of these plantings on 
the market ahead of the crowd, will more than repay the labor and 
seed lost on several. 
TO PROVIDE A CONTINUOUS SUPPLY 
For a continuous supply, make at least one planting of SPAN- 
CROSS a few days before the safe date. Then, when it is safe, plant 
at one time equal areas of (1) SPANCROSS, (2) MARCROSS, (3) 
CARMELCROSS or OLD HICKORY, (4) LINCOLN or LEE, (5) 
GOLDEN CROSS, (6) MAGNAGOLD. Then at 5 day intervals, plant 
more MAGNAGOLD, up to 90 days before the hoped for date of your 
last picking. This will give throughout the season as continuous a 
supply as can be arranged of quality corn that will win and hold your 
customers. 
AIMING FOR THE LATE MARKETS 
If -your late markets are extra good, make several plantings of 
whichever late hybrid you prefer up to 90 to 80 days before that last 
picking date. If delayed by weather or if planting after an early 
crop, use Carmelcross or Marcross. They may be planted up to 75 
to 65 days prior to the last picking date. 
OTHER SUGGESTIONS 
These hybrids have the vigor to make fine big crops but they must 
have plant food and moisture. Fertilize liberally. Commercial ferti- 
lizer plowed under is better than shallow applications. A later side 
dressing of nitrate or sulphate often pays. Use every means to con- 
serve the winter and spring accumulation of moisture. Hybrid corns 
must have normal or greater spacing. If your stand is too thick, be 
sure to thin it. This is important. Tests show that suckering and 
topping usually do not pay and sometimes reduce yields. 
Corn borer, earworm and smut can be controlled. See below. 
Insect and Disease Control 
EARWORM CONTROL IN SWEET CORN 
DDT has not yet been proved effective enough in the control of earworm, to be 
recommended. Entomologists in most of the states growing sweet corn commercially 
recommend for 1946 the control method and materials previously proven 90% or 
more effective. This method is described in Cire. 651 by Bureau of Entomology, U. 
S. Dept. of Agr., Wash., D. C. and in various state experiment station bulletins 
The treatment consists of injecting a mineral oil and insecticide mixture into 
the tip of each ear. This is applied between the time the silks have wilted and when 
they are partly browned. This is usually between the 5th and 10th days after the 
silks first appear. Too early interferes with pollination and too late misses the 
worms. The amount to apply to each ear is %4 teaspoonful (.75 to 1 c.c.). It 
should be applied 144” down in the midst of the silks toward the tip of the cob but 
should not contact the cob. One injection is enough. About 2 gal. of oil are used 
per acre. 
A pump oiler with a 4” to 6” slender spout, operated by finger lever is the 
equipment to use. There should be an attachment to regulate the amount of oil de- 
livered. If desired, a knapsack tank of oil can be connected with the oiler by a 
rubber hose to save time in refilling. For this a nipple must be soldered into the 
oiler, for attaching the hose. 
. Three mixtures are recommended. They are listed and priced below. 
With hybrids usually 50 to 80% of the ears can be treated the first time through 
and the balance the second time. More trips are necessary when development is 
uneven. After experience, one can treat 1500 to 2000 ears per hour or an acre in 
5 to 8 hours. Costs total about 1¢ per dozen ears, sometimes less. This treatment 
is recommended where severe ear worm damage is likely and good prices expected. 
This treatment does not control corn borer. 
MATERIALS & EQUIPMENT FOR CORN EAR WORM CONTROL 
Prices subject to change. 
Mineral oil with .2% pyrethrins; $1.20 qt., $2.10 gal., $8.40 5 gal. 
Mineral oil with 2% dichloroethyl ether, $1.00 qt., $1.90 gal., $8.00 5 gal. 
Mineral oil with styrene dibromide (Dowspray) 9) in pint bottles, $1.00 pt., $10.00 
case of 12. 
Above, freight or express collect. Barrel lots quoted on request. 
Pump oiler, 1 pt. capacity, with gauge, $2.45 postage paid. 
Pump oiler, 1 qt. capacity, with gauge, $3.75, postage paid. 
CORN BORER CONTROL IN SWEET CORN 
DDT and Ryanex have given best control of borer in recent tests but DDT needs 
further testing for plant injury and cattle poisoning when stalks are fed. Ryanex, 
rotenone or nicotine are recommended in that order. 
Spraying or dusting should begin as soon as the eggs start hatching. The county 
agricultural agent can give the dates, or the masses of overlapping pinhead like white 
eggs laid on the undersides of corn or weed leaves may be watched. They turn yel- 
low and just before hatching, a black spot appears on each egg. They hatch in 3 to 
7 days from laying. 3 
Four applications at 5 day intervals are necessary. Timeliness is important. 
The materials must be applied in the narrow spaces between the leaf sheaths and 
the stalks, first in the developing whorls, then in individual leaves and tillers and 
finally on all parts of the developing ears. Other parts do not need protection. 
These treatments will not control earworm. 
In the over wintering stage, many borers can be killed by feeding, making into 
silage, plowing under thoroly or burning all corn stalks, ears and cobs as far ahead 
of corn planting time as possible. 
See Leaflet 225, U. S. Dept. of Agr. or write your Col. of Agr. for more ‘details. 
SMUT CONTROL IN SWEET CORN 
New Jersey scientists Haenseler and Pepper have discovered that smut on sweet 
corn is 50% to 100%*controllable by the same materials that control corn borer. 
Smut control may not pay generally but it would be an added inducement to control 
borers where they are troublesome, and on certain early hybrids smut control would 
pay in most years. See Circular 486, N. J. Exp. Station, New Brunswick, N. J. 
MATERIALS & EQUIPMENT FOR BORER & SMUT CONTROL 
All freight or express collect. 
Ryanex. Write for prices April Ist. 
Rotenone (1%) Sulphur (25%) Dust, $2.50 per 10 Ib.; $9.00 per 50 Ibs. 
Dual fixed nicotine dust. Write for prices April Ist. 
American Beauty Duster, bellows-knapsack type, $25.00 
Brown’s Crystal Duster, $1.40. 
Brown’s 4 gallon “Open Hed” Sprayer, $7.00. 
Other Seeds 
COVER CROPS FOR SWEET CORN. Domestic rye grass has 
become the most popular winter cover crop to follow or precede corn. 
It has these advantages: Low cost. Catches easily. Interferes 
little with main crop. Is winter hardy. Stools profusely. Makes 
surprisingly dense root growth but no rank woody top growth. 
Plows and fits like 3 year sod. 
Sow 20 to 25 lbs. per acre in standing corn at or after last culti- 
vation but before wheat planting time. Covering is not necessary 
and should be very shallow. It may be sown in or after other culti- 
vated crops, too, or on disced grain stubbles, to produce a substantial 
sod to plow under the next spring. When sown early enough the 
addition of 3 lbs. of alsike or 6 lbs. of sweet clover to 18 lbs. of rye 
grass is worth while. 
Better plan to use domestic rye grass for cover crop this year. 
It is likely that your Agr. Conservation Program will pay part of the 
cost if you sign up now. 
ALFALFA SUBSTITUTE. The supply of hardy northern 
grown Alfalfa seed is extremely short. Wherever use of southern 
seed is too hazardous, the best substitute probably is a mixture of 
about 3 lbs. Ladino clover and 6 lbs. timothy, per acre. This mixture 
will yield nearly as much as alfalfa and, if cut early, will have nearly 
equal feed quality. On good soil, it should last nearly as long as 
alfalfa, too. 
We have top quality seed at money saving prices. 
them and order early. 
RUST RESISTANT GRAINS. Wisconsin’s Vicland oat has won 
its way East. In recent years rusts have seriously reduced spring 
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grain yields in the North Eastern States. But Vicland Oat, resistant 
to rusts, made outstanding yields. It has proved better than eastern 
varieties for late planting, for heat or drought and especially when 
rusts strike. It has a very stiff straw but unfortunately rather 
short. However, with grain prices high, assurance of a full granary 
is of first importance. So, we recommend Vicland. 
Wisconsin’s new spring wheat called Henry is also rust resistant. 
It is outyielding other spring varieties by substantial margins and 
may make profitable spring wheat growing possible here in the Hast. 
This is a good year to try it. We have a limited amount of certified 
seed, from a crop that combined 52 bushels per acre last year. 
QUAKER HILL DANISH CABBAGE. The fact that every 
kernel of our Quaker Hill Danish Cabbage seed is grown from care- 
fully selected mature heads assures better seed than most of that on 
the market which is at least second crop from selection. /More than 
30 years of skilled selection have produced and maintained a strain 
of high yielding ability, ideal market type, exceptional storage qual- 
ity and excellent flavor and texture. Numerous tests in New York, 
Pennsylvania and other states have given Quaker Hill Danish high 
ratings. It would rate high with you, too. 
SEED POTATOES. If you want the best in seed potatoes, con- 
sider our Prince Edward Island certified stocks. They are tops in 
disease freedom, condition, appearance and production. Many of the 
more particular seed potato growers in Maine, New York, Michigan 
and Minnesota use P.E.I. certified seed for their own plantings. 
You, too, can have the best. : 

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