. The modern guide for fruit and truck shippers and poultry raisers in the southern states; . essity of crowding stuff into where it isnot wanted. In Part VI of this book, The Modern Guide, will be found complete in-structions how to pickle cucumbers for commercial use and also how to canand preserve all fruits or vegetables either for home use or for market. HOW TO GROW, PACK AND SHIP COLLARDS. Collards are similar to cabbage, with the exception that collards do notform heads, simply growing into loose leaves, which are used like cab-bage and spinach as greens during the fall, winter and spri
. The modern guide for fruit and truck shippers and poultry raisers in the southern states; . essity of crowding stuff into where it isnot wanted. In Part VI of this book, The Modern Guide, will be found complete in-structions how to pickle cucumbers for commercial use and also how to canand preserve all fruits or vegetables either for home use or for market. HOW TO GROW, PACK AND SHIP COLLARDS. Collards are similar to cabbage, with the exception that collards do notform heads, simply growing into loose leaves, which are used like cab-bage and spinach as greens during the fall, winter and spring months. Col-lards, wh^en cooked properly, make very favorite greens with many people,especially in the South; the demand is, however, limited, and it is not avegetable that we would advise to grow to any large extent for shippingpurposes, as mustard, spinach, beet tops and turnip tops are preferred bymost people for greens. Sweet Corn. n PLANTING. Sow the seeds in drills 2i/^ feet apart in the rows; hoe and cultivatewith horse cultivator, keeping the ground loose and mellow. The ground. COLLARDS should be enriched by either stable manure or commercial fertilizers, about800 pounds to the acre. HARVESTING. When the leaves are grown and still tender cut the coUards and tie inbunches; ship in bushel crates, hampers or barrels. When shipped in bar-rels by express, cracked ice must be distributed throughout the barrel orelse the collards will heat, turn yellow and become unsalable. SWEET CORN. HOW TO PLANT^ HARVEST AND SHIP. The cultivation and growing sweet or field corn as roasting ears fortable use is strictly an American innovation. The pleasant flavor succu-lent, starchy substance, with fresh creamery butter added, make the earsof corn a great favorite to native Americans, both North and South, andeven to the foreigner who once partakes of the rich and nutritious dish. The demand in the early spring is practically unlimited, and the South-ern grower is enabled by his early ad
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