The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1871-06-29
.Apples for stock.

."~-- Apples for stock,
Messrs. Editors: What is your opinion of
the value of sweet apples for stock feeding
and what varieties are the best for this pur-
pose? Which is the best season for trans.
planting fruit trees, spring or autumn.
A SUBSCRIBER.
Sweet apples are of great value in feeding
almost any kind of farm animals. Hogs
will fatten rapidly on. them, as well as on
the richer varieties if not sweet: Cows, if
not over-fed with them at the start, and care
is taken to cut or mash the apples so as not
to choke them, will increase in milk and
improve in condition. Apples are excel
lent and succuleut food for horses in winter
Any varieties of sweet apples that bear abun-
dainty, will answer the purpose. Unfortu-,
uately, but little attention has been given to
varieties for feeding domestic animals exciu-
siyely Hardness, thriftiness and great
bearing qualities, are the main requisites
For early feeding, probably the High Top
or Summer Sweet Of the West is the best.
There are several autumn sorts, at least
worthy of trial, among which are the fol-
lowing: Coolies Sweet is fine grower and
avery productive New Jersey,variety; Jersey
Sweet" is: aFse very productive, but the tree,
is less vigorous, and said not TO- Be entirely
harlyIat the west; "Munson Sweeting" and
Haskell Sweet" are both productive and Of
excellent quality, but notyet much tried west
of New York: the Pumpkin Sweet" may
prove good autumn sort for this purpose.
The same remark will apply to the "Sweet
Romantic" awestern variety. The "Wing
Sweeting," although not large, is very pro-
ductive at the east, and keeps well-if as
much so at the west it would be valuable.
The Screen Sweet" is hardy and productive
andkeeps into Spring.-Couasy Gentleman.
PLANT PEAs.-The Southern Cultivator
for June; insits, Thoughts fbr the Month"
makes the following excellent suggestions in
regard to planting peas: .-...--
Except for Improvement Of land, it is Bet
ter to plant peas by themselves and not
among oern Run rows the same distance
as for cotton and drop half dozen seed in
Rills eighteen inches apart-or they may be
sowed with planter and afterwards chopped
cut as cotton. Two plowings and one hoe
in some cases two plowings alone will make
the crop. Seed should be putin the ground
this month"; delayed to the 1st Of July
plant the speckled or whippoorwill variety,
as.it natures early. Old fields that have
grown up in pines and been recently cleared
make excellent crops of peas. They may be
also sownSon; the wheat and fall oat stuble
and cultivated with very little labor. It is
a much more certain crop than corn on poor
land; and may be largely substituted for it
feeding stock, even work horses and mules.
We have fed our work horses for years on
peas without grain Of corn. For this pur-
pose gather and put away in the hull with
out threshing cut, and feed in same condi-
tion-a bushel to bushel and half to a
horse at feed. Thus fed, we observe no
tendency to produce colo. As food for
milch COWS, the pea has no equal-every
farmers wife has a right to complain of her
good man if he fails to raise at least an abun-
aant supply for her COWS. The great draw,
back of this very valuable crop is the trou.
=: bic of gathering. Cannot some inventive
genius come,to the rescue? Who will fur.
nish machine to pick peas?
A few acres of ground fenced off to itself
small part planted in sweet potatoes and
the rest in peas and ground peas, would fat
ten all the hogs required on the farm-with
very small amount Of labor e1pended-as
the hogs could gather the crops for them
selves, --..-..
A.