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That is exactly why my grandmother would plant about 2 1/2 acres of corn 
- in patches about a week apart. That way we could have fresh corn for a 
long time and she would not have to can or freeze huge amounts at one time.

When it got too old to eat as "sweet corn" we would let it mature and 
pick it for the cattle in the fall.

Truman

Sisu West Ranch wrote:
> *"...* that field corn is downright unappetizing...."
> *Actually not so. Before special sweet corn was developed, corn on the 
> cob was just field corn picked at just the right maturity. It is 
> sweet, but after a couple of more days of growing the sugar content 
> goes down, the starch content goes up and yuk!. The evolution 
> continues, I now plant one of the new super sweet varieties and find 
> that it is edible for almost a month, as opposed to a couple of weeks 
> for the standard variety I used to plant.*
> **
> *Ed*
> *Ed & Wendy Hauser
> 2994 Mittower Road
> Victor, MT 59875*
> *(406) 642-9640*
> *ranch(at)sisuwest(dot)us*


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“It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how 
smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong” Richard 
Feynman, Nobel Laureate in Physics


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