Archive image from page 20 of Currie's farm and garden annual. Currie's farm and garden annual : spring 1925 50th year curriesfarmgarde19curr_8 Year: 1925 ( LIST OF TESTED GARDEN SEEDS FOR 1925. 15 SWEET CORN CultureâCorn must have a good rich soil. In the back yard garden where light and air cannot penetrate to the roots readily plant one or two kernels every 6 inches apart and when up ihin out to 12 inches, preferably leaving only one plant in each hill. Failures are chielly attributable to close planting. Sow one to two Inches deep, and cultivate fairly deep when above ground, gradually
Archive image from page 20 of Currie's farm and garden annual. Currie's farm and garden annual : spring 1925 50th year curriesfarmgarde19curr_8 Year: 1925 ( LIST OF TESTED GARDEN SEEDS FOR 1925. 15 SWEET CORN CultureâCorn must have a good rich soil. In the back yard garden where light and air cannot penetrate to the roots readily plant one or two kernels every 6 inches apart and when up ihin out to 12 inches, preferably leaving only one plant in each hill. Failures are chielly attributable to close planting. Sow one to two Inches deep, and cultivate fairly deep when above ground, gradually reducing depth as the alyances; by so doing the larger roots are not cut or disturbed. At the last cultivation it,!&â better to hill rather than to cultivate too close to the plants. One pound to every 250 hills where space is not so limited as a back yard garden, or if sown in rows one pound will suffice for a 200 foot drill or 300 hills. 12 to 15 lbs. per acre. MAYFLOAVERâA new variety in the West, but raised in large quantities in some of the Eastern States, where it is by ten days the earliest Sweet Corn grown, and is always the lirst variety on the market. It is six inches to a foot dwarfer than Early Cory, very much larger in the ear, running 8, 10 and 12-rowed, and is considered of much better qual- ity. In sweetness of flavor it compares very favorably with the delicious Golden Bantam Pkt. lUc: V;; U>. ;iOc (by mail 35c); 1 lb. 50c (by mail 57c); 5 lbs. $; 10 lbs. $4 50- 25 lbs. $ Livingston's lEarly SugarâA very beautiful new sort of finest flavor. Produces, In favorable seasons, perfect ears 60 days after planting-. Ears average 7 inches in length by 2 inches in diameter, are filled with 12 to 14 rows of pearly white, broad and deep kernels of de- licious quality. Pkt. 10c; lb. 30c (by 35c); 1 lb. 50c (by mail 57c); 5 lbs. $2 35- 10 lbs. $; 2.'> lbs. $ ' ' ' GOLDEN BANTAMâAn early dwarf variety, with small, compact
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