

PLAN YOUR PLANTINGS FOR GREATER PROFITS 

Sweet Corn Planting Suggestions 
Getting the most out of sweet corn depends considerably on 
choosing hybrids and timing plantings so as best to meet one’s par- 
ticular 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 a week and all the MARCROSS you can market in 4 days. This 
furnishes sweet corn for the first 2 or 3 weeks of the season. If it is 
wanted for a longer period, make a planting of Carmelcross 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, (4) C22.27, (5) LINCOLN or LEE, (6) GOLDEN 
CROSS or IOANA, (7) 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 con- 
tinuous 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 
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 underside of corn or weed leaves may be watched. They turn 
yellow and just before hatching, a black spot appears on each egg. They hatch in 
3 to 7 days from laying. 
Four applications at 5 day intervals are necessary. Use 30 to 40 lbs. per acre 
each application. Timeliness is important. ae 
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. 
Prices of Ryanex are at right. 
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. 
EARWORM CONTROL IN SWEET CORN 
Now corn earworm can be controlled easily. Experiments by Dr. Bailey B. 
Pepper, et al., of N. J. Agr. Exp. Sta., show that one application of Rothane dust, 
30> to 50% strength, 35 to 40 Ibs. per acre at the right time will give 85% to 90% 
central It may be applied broadcast with hand, traction or power dusters or by 
air plane. 
The right time to apply it is soon after most of the silks have emerged and 
before they wilt, that is, just before the worms hatch from the eggs laid in the 
fresh silks. If the silking is not fairly uniform, two dustings may he necessary. 
So far, Rothane has shown no ill effects on corn plants as has DDT under some 
conditions. Rothane is less toxic to domestic animals than DDT and is not expected 
to cause trouble if dusted stalks are fed. 
This is the first really practical and economical control devised for ear worm. 
It will pay to use it wherever severe damage is expected. 
Rothane does not control corn borer as well as Ryanex. See paragraph at left. 
Prices of Rothane are below. 
MATERIALS FOR EARWORM, BORER AND SMUT CONTROL 
Prices subject to change. All freight or express collect. 
Rothane, Packed 100 lb. drums, Less 100 Ib., 10c; 100 to 1900 Ibs., 7e; ton or 
more 614¢ Ib. 
Ryanex. Sacked 50 Ib. bags. Less bag, 20¢ lb.; 1 to 9 bags, 16¢ Ib.; 10 bags or 
more, 15¢ lb. 
COMFO DUST MASK. For comfort and safety in handling chemicals, best avail- 
able. Postpaid, 1 to 4, $3.50; 5 or more, $3.30 each. 
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 8 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 8 lbs. of alsike or 6 lbs. of sweet clover to 18 lbs. of rye 
grass is worthwhile. 
_ Better plan to use domestic rye grass for cover crop this vear. 
It is likely that your Agr. Conservation Program will pay part of the 
cost if you sign up now. 
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. 

RUST RESISTANT SPRING WHEATS. With wheat prices 
supported again in 1947 and world requirements for wheat still un- 
satisfied, spring wheat is likely to pay better than other spring grains, 
provided the new rust resistant varieties are used. In the humid 
climate of the eastern states rusts have made it unprofitable to grow 
susceptible varieties. But last season the resistant varieties yielded 
very well here and promise to make profitable spring wheat growing 
possible in the East. This is a good year for further trial. Both 
Mida and Henry are rust resistant. 
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. 
SHORTAGES. Ladino Clover, Wild Bird’s Foot Trefoil, Kentucky 
Blue Grass and Lincoln and Achenback strains of Brome Grass seeds 
are in short supply this season. Better cover requirements promptly. 
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