Farm And Garden

One hardly realizos the importance of eweet coru as a food for thts humau f amily. It is "used not only in its immature or green state, but also in canned and dried form. Last year the New Hambre station tested 41 of the more i, .'tant and highly recornmended kinds of sweel cora. From uumbered notes, accompanied by illustratious, in a lately issued report of the experiment the following items are gleaned : 14. White Cob. - One of the earliest. Very dark green foliage, 5 feet high, numerous suckers, good sized kernels, with small cob; goodquality; numerous ears under size. 15. First of All. - A new large eared early variety ; ears 8 inches long ; cob large and not well filled at tip ; kernels about medium size; stalk 5L feet; a heary yielder ; quality fair. 26. Early Fordhook. - A new extra early white variety; height, 4 feet 8 inches; a good sized ear, with 8 to 10 rows, small cob and large kernels extending to the tip. The rows are regular and present a good appearance ; average yield ; smut 1 ear in 20 ; worthy of trial. 28. Telephone. - An early variety; cob medium in size and fairly well filled, although not very closely; eight rowed and about the average size of the smaller varieties ; height, 5 feet; quality poor; color, white; average yield. 84. Early Beverly.- Fruited with the first; plant 5 feet tall; ear good size; foliage dark; cob large, well filled; quality good; average yield. 37. Kendall's Early Market. - A new variety ; large ears ; comparatively early; fair quality ; average yield; promising. 38. Mammoth White Cory. - Although ripening a few ears early it is not so early as White Cob or Cory's Early ; ear rather short ; average yield ; poor quality. 4. Moore's Concord. - Medium early; some stalks with no ears; few with two ; dull white color. 7. Stabler's Early. - Medium, white variety ; stalk rather long jointed. 8. Roslyn Hybrid. - Late white variety ; quality medium. 10. Early Minnesota. - An early white, eight rowed variety ; not as ear lv as manv. 17. Premium. - Medium early white variety ; height, 7 feet ; not very productive last season; kernels 8 to 10 rows ; quality good ; 1 in 20 smutted. 19. New England Sweet. - Early, eight rowed variety originating in New England; fairly productive; sweet; height, 6 feet. The ears harden rapidly, quikly passing the edible stage. 20. Early Mammoth. - This variety is f ully a week earlier than Mammoth and f ar superior; ears 12 rowed, large, regular; quality good; productive. It is told in the report that two varieties of interest were Improved Ruby and Early Orange. The stalks and husks of the former were scarlet and the white kernels set in red hulls. The latter was a deep orange colored ear, accompanied with a peculiar though not objectionable flavor. A distinot type of extra early sweet corn is found in the four varieties, Eastman 's Early, First of All, Early Fordhook and White Gob. These are all very early, sweet, eight rowed, well filled and of fair size. The Extra Early Beverly was the only extra early la row variety of good qnality. Crosby's Early, although not as early as the earliest by a few days, still remains the Standard early variety.