Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-03-14

For moving them to the stacks, usual
ly make use Of dumping carts, one mule
TO each, allowing two hands TO throw up
the piles, and one 10 pack them in care
fully, go IS not 10 tangle them. The stack
ing is done by about four Of the most care
ful hands, one man upon the stack, and
the three others folding the vines together
IN lunches and throwing TO the stacker,
carefully, 50 az 10 avoid tangling. Stacks
should be tapered from about two feet Of
the top and capped of with hay or straw.
have, for the last ten years, been stow
ing them in houses, after they had re-
NAMED in the stacks Ten or fifteen days in
the open air, for the purpose Of seasoning
or drying, TO prevent moulding or turning
dark, when packed in the houses This
method Of putting in houses | have found
/ a great advantage, more than compensa-
ting for the expense Of buildings, packing
them away, etc, az it not only prevents
destruction by birds, but renders the quail
ity Of the pea very much better, keeping
them from becoming black or speckled,
which Injuries the sale materially.
The houses used, are about thirty by
sixty TO seventy-fve feet long, and six
teen to eighteen feet in height-built BY
putting post oak, or light-wood posts, in
the ground, covered neatly with good
shingles Observation-Disclosures ten
foot passage leading through from end to
end, allowing wagons 10 pas through until
both sides are filled up; then filling the
passage up 70 the top Of the house.
The picking and preparing for, market,
Is a tedious and Troublesome process, as
the beat hands viii not clean more than
two to four bushels p day, and those who
are inexperienced, not more than half of
that. i have, however, a machine or
thresher, driven by steam which was in
vented, on my plantation, about twelve
wears ago, by young man living in this
place, who patented the same, and has
lately built several to 60 by horse power
My machine will lhresh, in good, dry
weather, two hundred bushels per day, and
has threaded ss high as three hundred,
when in good order.
The vines or tops make excellent forage
for mules and cattle. Ordinarily the sand
in them makes them rather Objectionable
as food for horses they are, however, used
even for that. Mules and cattle prefer
them TO any other forage, and my opinion
is, that they are quite az good, if not pre-
ferable 10 the best clover hay.
We bale the vines from the machine with
common hay press, pack them away fol
use and feed abundantly with them through
the winter and plow seasons. What ia mol
eaten is trampled by the stock, making a
rich manure for the compost heap. The
cleaning of the fields, after harvesting, il
valuable for fattening hogs, sows and pigs
have been thus particular in enumer-
ating all the little details of sod and mode
Of planting, gathering, etc, etc, because
have received innumerable Letters Of in,
quiry, from persons at distance, and from
all points in the South, most of whom
perhaps, have never seen crop Of ground
peas, and to whom an attempt to engags
largely in this crop without experience OF
directions in regard to the points above
named, would, perhaps, prove hazardous
if not Tuinous