Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 124, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1911 — Sweet Corn for Home Use. [ARTICLE]

Sweet Corn for Home Use.

I .have been planting sweet corn for several years with a one-horse corn planter, dropping one grain every 12 inches asunder in the row and the rows three feet apart. I think I can raise better and larger corn than by planting three or four grains by hand at a single place in rows the same distance apart, says a writer in an exchanges As soon as the land is ready I use a weeder upon it just as I do on potatoes. This is much better thiah a cultivator at first, as it keeps the ground finer and holds moisture better and does not disturb the roots as much as the cultivator does. For a first planting I use some very early kind and then follow this with several plantings of late varieties . about two weeks apart In this way I succeed in having sweet corn late In the season and also have abundance for canning and drying for the home table.