Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-03-27

Besides the ordinary ana staple croPs
which the farmer grows, there are some
minor ones, says the Rural Ne'o Yorker,
TO which attention should be paid, and
which will considerably augment the
profits of business if properly cultivated.
Their importance lies in their relation to
the other products and operations of the
farm, which they extend and complete.
A system of mixed husbandry is best
adapted to their introduction, and derives
from them the most benefit In planning
for the various standard crops, therefore,
these minor ones should not be over
looked, and upon them we will offer a
few suggestions.
A small area of land devoted to roots,
will afford a large amount of food in pro-
portion to the labor and land required,
the quality of which is of great value
almost Indispensable It's healthful
and fattening effect on stock. The cost
of keeping horse teams, which is large,
NAV be greatly reduced, and their health
and vigor promoted at the same time, by
supply of carrots for their food. Sugar
beets, or mangel wurtzels, are equally
valuable for COWS and turnips for sheep.
Farmers as a class, dislike to "putter
with these crops, but when a man once
gets in the way of growing a supply he
rarely abapdons it; the greatest dilhcul-
ty is in getting started. For growing the
long roots as carrots or beets, very good
way is to set off and keep patch for that
especial purpose. In that case it is likely
TO be better prepared and cultivated than
if its location be changed yearly; besides,
if there is a field especially for the roots
very likely they will be grown each year,
whereas, if the plan is to raise them IN
field with some other crop, none but the
most thorough farmers, and they are not
in the majority, would carry 1t out every
wear One acre devoted to the culture of
the long roots may be made to furnish
tolerable supply for the wants OF the
horses and cows of an ordinary hundred
acre farm And there will be some to
spare to the breeding sows and store pigs,
which will devour them greedily. This
acre should be of rich soil we should
prefer clay to gravel, and a clay and sand
loan would be best 1t should be worked
very deep with subsoil pillow and made
dry: then it should be MANFRED. The
cultivation ought to be fifteen to twenty
inches in depth. In this way, although
only one acre is planted, yet nutrlment
and growth equal to two or three as
ordinarily cultivated, are got. \ yield
of ten or twelve hundred bushels
annually will result, and perhaps the
farmer will learn such lesson about
the effects Of high culture as will benefit
him 10 the extent Of thousands of dollars
in other branches Of farming The meth
oa If culture is simple plant IN drills
not more than twenty inches or two feet
apart, use a special cultivator-the sub
sousnlow run between the rows is very
eFectual when the ground gets a little
hard and dry-thin the plants in the
rows, and in digging use the pillow to
throw the dirt from the roots.
Another minor crop which pays very
well to grow for fall and winter feed, for
cows. hogs and fatting sheep, is cabbage
An immense amount Of this food may be
Droduced on an acre. When the grass is
rrost.bitten and snort in the fall, cabbage
saves hay and helps out nicely Little
Mains need be taken in storing 1t If fed
ont bv the middle Of winter. twill keep
well piled under a shed with some straw
tbrown over it Quite hard freezing
will not iniure it for feeding purposes
A. least the vacant spots in the corn field
made so bv grubs or otaer depredators,
.houn be set with cabbage. Ten thou-
sand plants may be set on one acre ana
all will make feed, though not solid heads.
Very often quantity of the best heads
could be marketed at prices which would
make the crop average two or three huns
dred dollars per acre. Some growers IN
New Jersey cultivate forty and fifty acres
in cabbage.
Corn sown for fodder is oitentimes
very profitable; by devoting few acres