CHANTENAY 
(Days to Maturity, 70) 
Uses: Early market variety. Also used for 
winter storage and home gardens. 
Roots: 5 to 5% inches long, slightly tapered, 
deep orange. 
CHANTENAY RED-CORED 
(Days to Maturity, 70) 
Uses: Desirable for shippers and canners. 
Adapted to freezing. 
Roots: Similar in size to Chantenay. 
LONG ORANGE (Improved) 
(Days to Maturity, 86) 
Uses: Used for market gardens. 
Roots: Long, tapered, deep orange. Excellent 
quality. 
Carrots, Chantenay 
Sweet Corn 
CULTURE: Well-drained, deeply cultivated and GOLDEN CROSS BANTAM HYBRID 
well-fertilized soil is best. Do not plant until 
danger of frost is past. Late crops should not be (Days to Maturity, 80) 
planted until the ground is quite warm. Sweet, Uses: Used by canners, shippers, and market 
corn is more sensitive to cold than field corn. gardeners. Excellent for freezing. 
Hills for early varieties should be planted 3 
feet apart each way; for late varieties 3 to 4 
feet apart each way. Plant 4 to 6 kernels to each Ears: 8 inches long, generally 2 ears per stalk, 
hill and thin to 3 or 4 plants to a hill when plant iO taplarowed chile 
reaches a height of 6 inches. Sow 2 ounces for 100 Kerncloy lon 
feet; 15 pounds per acre. When planting in 
rows, space rows 3 to 4 feet apart and plant 
seed 1 to 1% inches apart in the row. Hybrid GOLDEN BANTAM 
corn varieties are planted and cultivated the ; , 
same as ordinary corn except that less seed is (Days to Maturity, 70) 
Stalk: 6 feet tall, vigorous, resistant to bac- 
terial wilt. 
used per acre. Most growers use approximately Uses: Home and market gardens. Also wide- 
8 pounds per acre. Do not save your own seed ly used as canning variety. Excellent for freezing. 
from hybrids. Hybrid seed must be produced by Stalk: 4%4 to 5% feet tall. 
crossing each year. Results are unsatisfactory Ears: 614 to 7% inches long, 8-rowed. 
unless this is done. Kernel: Large and yellow. 
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