The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-07-12
Green Corn for Market and Home
Use.

There is no more delightful vegetable
than green corn. We doubt II there Is
one person in a thousand who does not
eniov above everything else a well prepar-
ed dish of it at the noontide meal. 1t
suits the taste of everybody. When culled
At the proper stage, it is the most enjoy
able dish when served in the simplest man.
ner possible to-wit: boiled on the cob and
served with pepper and salt, adding lit
tie butter when desired. Those who care
but little for beans or potatoes cannot re-
sist the persuasive influence of savory
dish of corn.
There are number of other crops that
can be made TO pay larger profits per acre,
but there are none that pay as fair profit
with as little trouble and expense as a
well grown crop of corn, especially where
the grower is situated so as to desire the
full value of the crop, as is the case where
he has milk cows and other stock to which
he can feed the green stalks as fast as the
corn is disposed of. If not fed green the
stalks can be readily converted into fod-
der. If the soil is good and the prepare
ton of it for planting what it should be,
a good variety used and the manner of
planting just right, it requires COMPARE
lively HUE WOEk 10 uldhS d crop Oh COIHs
but that work must be given promptly
and at the proper time. Usually very
rough treatment is given corn, and the crop
is rarely what it ought to be under such
circumstances.
Where one grows it for market, of course
ii is desired to mature the crop as early as
possible, that is. most of 1t. With corn,
as with fruits and some other vegetables,
next to a very early crop, a very late crop
tat,
as good prices as the first, the medium
crop being the least profitable of all.
With The latter, competition brings down
prices in hurry.
Even in Middle Georgia the first plant
ing of corn, either for green or dry pur-
poses, is made during the latter part of
February, when the weather proves suita-
Die for the purpose. This first planting in
this section should not be deferred later
man the 9Th of March, unless the weather
makes the delay unavoidable When the
second planting for a succession should
be made, depends on circumstances. eve
are speaking simply of green corn for the
table,. 1t depends entirely on the seasons
whether planting two or three weeks af-
ter the first planting will prove "suc-
cessve" or not. 1t may come into condi-
tlon for table use simultaneously with the
first
The plan we have found most satisfac-
tory when we grow this crop was not to
Kelly on successive planting to keep up
continuous market supply during June and
July, by different times of planting, but to
plant at the same time in February or
early March, two, If not three different
varieties that come into roasting condi-
ton from ten to fourteen days apart.
for the first ripening some good variety
ol me class known as garden corn was Sc
Iected but never after my first two or
'hree years experience, choosing any va
lle'y OF sugar corn. 1t never gave salts
faction.
Where three varieties were used, the u.s.
ual selection with us was Adams Early.
biounts Prolific, and an ordinary south
eIn mint corn, using the Golden dent also
70 some extent. The three varieties mem
Uohel' planted at the same time in early
March extended the green corn lin suit
"pe condition for the table, through June
aha July, and well into August Where a
sIo"er has good market for all the ear
~ corn mat ne grows on a limited area
S =, anu OF course he will plant only one
IN ana the earliest he can get But us
NdiiS market gardeners near towns and
e.les md it to their interest TO keep in
SUCK OF certain vegetables through quite
season, and where this is the case he
WI md il profitable to plant two or
'lIee different varieties of the same plant
az az cary and medium, or early, medium
~ 'ate KIND. This is a much better plan
ian 20 attempt to maintain a succession
80 H me same variety planted at inter-
-. -, Aa sald before, the weather or the
- tsience OF other important work NAV
5vteHl planting just az the time that
"ouia make II success.