Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1864-02-10
The chufa or Earth Almond.

Our agricultural and Other excoafiges COZ
tain favorable notice of the value or iris plant
for hogs. We think it demands attention
from our farmers and planters, and according
II reproduce the following article upon the
subject from the Field end fresi6e OF the
ID instant. We see by advertisement in the
Augusta newspapers that sesd can be pro-
cured of J. V. Jones, Herndon 2. g., Burke
county, Ga. A bushel Of seed in secure boxes,
for S25, sent By express:
THE cHuFA OR EARTH ALMoND.
The analysis of this plant and its practical
use for a series OF years establishes cenclu-
siyely its great value as q field crop, and none
other known in hushanGry can surpass it as
an auxiliary to the great grain crop Of this
country. It is extensively used by The Span
iaris as food both for men and animals, and
will be a, proA,abl; employed in this ioun-
try, when It's value beconss known and ap-
precisted. The tubers, when pouuded into
a paste and mixed with wafer, make a re-
marksble emulsion, resembles milk in ap-
pearance, and, when strained, the fat rises to
the surface and looks like cream. This emul-
zion, when prepared and sweetened to the
taste, is 8 most nutritive ingredient, and may
be used az o valuable substitute for milk
the remaining cake forming a rich, nu.ritive
food for all domestic animals.
The cultivation of the Ckufa is the same
as cotton or coru, and may be planted at the
same time and grown between the rowsof the
latter crop, like the ground or feldpea: The
largest yield, however, is realized by planting
the crop to itself upon three foat beds, ss for
cotton-dropping ops or Two tubers tIensy
inches apart on the bed, and covered with
the foot. or cotton board or the crop may
be planted in checks two feet nine inches
SQUARE. one or two seeds to the hill, covered
9TH foot or hoe, and cultivated entirely with
the sweep, running two furrows esah wsy at
the SANG time. One bushel of tubers will
plant from Ave to ton acres. The harvest is
EASY and expeditious-a thrust with q man
ure fork on opposite sides OF tho bill and
thrown up, presents q quart 70 half gallon
of tubers tho size of a post or white oakacorn,
and may be gathered from one to two BUSH
81, per day to the hand. When harvested
for market, the tubers must be we'll washed
and dried in the sun, and spread er q floor
and not bulked, as heat or fermentation will
iniure them. The seed are better for plaut-
ing, taken fresh from the feldin spring, after
remaining all winter in the ground.
The Chufa is q plant Of more vitality, and
car be transplanted at any stage Gifts growth
With more facility than any garden or field
crop, to the missing +, spaces which ere "few
and far between and is far more reliable
and productive, requiring less labor in cult
vat:on, maturing in ono half the time OF the
totatoe or ground pea, and Yields three times
rs much per acre. 1t. luxuriates upon all
poor or ~silicious soils, endures the most in
tense drowths, mover wiltering under a burn
ing sun, its deep green leaves resembling a
luxuriant field Of rice, always presenting a
cheerful promise, and, never failing to return
TIE reward of o Fuifs9sel;ion When the cult:
walton has been generous and complete. Dur
ING the most fatal seasons. we have ever e2-
perienced upon n field on which every other
Species of crops have rusted and "drled up
during the first days Of dry weather in May
or June, and from which we have not gath
cred. without It's specific manure 6Yc bushels
of corn. nor three hundre1 pounds of seed
cotton pcr acre in thirty years, al ascragc OF
. eighty Two bushels of tubcrs per acre hare
been obtained. Other planters have reported
over two hpudred bushels per anFe Gu a marr
GENEROUS SOIL. Mhat plant SroWn o".tht
enir.htsped hpsha,dn.an viii yield so msoi
uuui,iye food per ecse fas- tao saint labor
None Of which we are informed How mael
%j,,poier the prescut condition and future pros
pe5i Of tie country, had Ii: crop been grq%I
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hunger and scarcity now presenting suci
hear;-rend;ng results aaaw@c tie shortening
.ais.s.ided esoaos:J.
j! T'h6 Comparative value of the Chufs, with
other auxiliary crops for feeding and raising
fwine, is conclusive to all practical and ex
perienced breeders, beiaG ready fer feeding i
July and August, when ether aas:lia..es IL;
struggling win mcstscaort fer maturity.
Tie nursing SOW when turned in autumn
upon the potatoc, ground or ieii pea, take
or fat f%spidly,, milk:d.ics up,, offspfing dwip
dies and perishes for its %naLuEel @sIlnent. Th,
lesul: Of Ills Stimulated condition Of The Gov
Is know. 10 al practical breeders. not 8
WHEN feeding upon the Chufa; both scw ai'
VIC ,hnd in tho tubers these ingredients so IS
s%entially un;!el FOR the lie giving secretion
Of the dam, and the RAPID Development e Il.