Sweet Corn

The best plan is to have plenty of seed and plant as early as the ground will work mellow, and then in about eight days plant another patch, so if the first ishould fail you have more coming on, writes a correspondent in Southern Cultivator, who further says: "If I can get corn up, a smart frost will not hnrt it, it will only cut the top down, the bud is under the ground protected and will be coming the same. I have not found this corn much more Hable to rot from early planting than common field corn. This corn requires richer soil than field corn; in f act it is useless to plant the small early varieties without very rich eoil and it well nianured. The best soil for an early erop is a rich sandy loam. It may be planted in hills three feet each way, or in drills six to eight inches in the drill, according to the variety grown or strength of soil; the taller the variety or the rich'fer the soil the greater should be the distance between the rows. "The finest erop of sugar corn I ever grew I turned a erop of r3e under while in bloom and planted the ground in meions. The third time the melons were plowed a furrow was run in the middle between the rows and early Egyptian Bngar corn drilled in it six inehes apart. After the corn was up to see it across the field the whole patch was thoroughly plowed and laid by. This corn camo in at a time when sweet corn came into fall market. Besides the ears it yielded an abundance of stalk fodder. All things considered, 1 find it the most protitable to plant the large kinds and depend on early planting and manure for early corn."