Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1870-05-26
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plsnt Sweet Corn.

Somebody talks sensibly as fol-
lows:
DON'T fail to plant few rows OF
sweet corn. 1t tisone of the most nu-
tr;tious and easily digested articles
of food that you esn have in the sum-
mer season, ifproperly cooked. Some
spoil it by too much boiling. Green
corn, eggs and clans, found out
long ago. grow harder by long boil
ino Corn should not be in boiling
water over FIVE minutes, and any
time over that hsrdens it. 1t should
be plucked from the field and strip
ned of its husks but a very short
time before it goes into boiling wa
ter. Wilted corn may do for the
poor. unlucKy mortals in the city,
but it is disgrace to the man who
raises it if he allows it to go on his
tablein that condition. If these con-
ditions are properly attended to, 1t
is a dish that almost any man can
make a hearty meal from, whether
roasted or boiled, and a plenty OF 1t
through the season will save quite an
amount of -four and meat. You want
to plant different kinds, and at an in
terval of q week or more during the
season, and thus you will have a sue
cession of it, always some of 1t In
proper condition for cooking. DON
be afraid you will get too much plant
ed eIf you don't eat it the hogs
will have to-" as the good old lady
told the minister when urging him to
take another piece of pumpkin pie,
at the supper table. And the hogs
will like to very well.
One man that l know, who is call
ed a good farmer, though his age
prevents him now from carrying it
on very extensively, said that he did
not feed his hogs anything else, from
the time his sweet corn began to be
large enough to feed until it ripened
off, but ears of green, sweet corn,
broken up; and he had as nice hogs
as any man about, and as sweet pork.
He said it took less so than it did
dry, and the swine grew faster on it.
And the stalks are excellent fodder
for milch COWS. If DR.. Loring does
denounce green corn-stalks as "the
poorest, meanest fodder ever fed to
a cow" 1 am very sure he did not
mean the stalks of sweet corn, plant
ed in hills, 30 that the sun could ri
pen the juices in it. He might have
meant the Southern corn, grown in
drills, or sown broadcast on purpose
for fodder. There is a very great
difference between the two articles;
as much as there is between a good,
ripe apple, and an unripe one. A
chemical analysis will readily show
the difference in nutrition, and cattle
will tell you the difference as truly.
So give sweet corn fair trial.
And now a word about planting
corn: Three inches deep / believe to
be better than one. Ifit does not
come up so quickly, it will grow more
rapidly, and mature more surely. If
put so near the surface as to sprout
too soon, the stock is formed and ad-
vanced more rapidly than the roots.
Like some children, it outgrows its
constitution. It is hot bed plant
that has been forced too hard, and
has grown more stalk than root. If
corn is three inches deep it will form
its roots, and they will strike deep
into the earth before the more slow
growing stalk germ will have begun
to show through the ground, and this
will be enough to keep it growing
and vigorous when drought or other
causes will have killed the feeble
rooted top-of- the ground stalks.