I have tried for three years to grow Cory Corn in the state of Nebraska. I obtained seed first of J. J. H. Gregory, Marblehead, Mass., and planted two acres. It was a failure - no marketable ears. The corn would not fill out, and was terribly smutty. I thought it wanted acclimatization, and so I saved the best of it and tried it the next year. The result was worse than before; I obtained nothing fit for the table. I began to think I had been imposed upon in the purchase of the seed, and this year to give the thing another trial, I bought of another seedsman, James Vick, and planted the corn in our excellent soil in the best manner; I fully expected to beat my neighbors, who did not plant Cory. It was carefully cultivated and now the result a total failure, worse than before ! There was not one perfect ear in the whole quarter-acre plot. We failed to get one mess for our own table even of half-filled ears of corn ! The small cob was there - sometimes - and a few grains of corn, but nothing half-way perfect. I am disgusted with Cory, and will never plant it again in the west, unless I have a "change of heart," or see some good reason for so doing. I will take Stowell's Evergreen, or some other variety tried in this section hereafter.

This item may save western planters some dollars, and not a few. - O. L. Barber, Beatrice. Neb.

Lettuce in Hotbeds is not a difficult crop to raise by the following method : January 1st sow half an ounce of seed under one 3x6 sash, putting hot horse manure under it. Protect this sash through cold and snow with mats and shutters, till the plant has four leaves. Then prepare two or more frames to receive the plants. Plants should be taken into a warm place and potted in two-inch pots, one plant in a pot; 450 pots will then go under one sash. Put two inches of dirt on the manure, and set the pots on it, within three inches of the glass, and at the end of three weeks, or the first week in February, the potted plants will be ready for a final setting in the bed where they are to head. For four or five weeks the plants that will occupy 20 sashes have been growing in three, over heating manure twice applied ; whereas, if the plants had been set in the large bed when first planted, the heat would have been nearly spent. Now the half-grown plants with a nice ball of roots can be set in the fresh earth, over freshly heating manure and they will mature in 90 days from the time of sowing the seed. The extra labor of potting is balanced by the small amount of glass to be cared for till the plants are half grown.

This plan seems much better than others that have been practiced.

In making the beds to receive the potted plants, throw the manure in without treading, within eight inches of the glass; then put on six inches of earth. This will bring the lettuce within two inches of the glass. Fifty plants will go under a 3x6 sash ; and as the manure settles and the plants grow, the distance of the lettuce from the glass remains about the same. The heads on the outer edges of the beds thus have an equal chance with the central ones. The danger from frost early in the season, and from scorching later in the spring is greater, and the sashes will require more care to prevent injury.

Dandelion roots set in the bench now will be ready for market or use in about four weeks. The round radish grows well also in a close house, but the long ones do not succeed well; they want more air and deeper and finer soil than the round ones.