The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-01-19

| NATURE AMI Thcr ara AiOVSOrl oNi41.
The soil should be sandy loans
not too rich, but capable of yielding
a fair crop of corn;- forsif too rich the
tendency of the plant will, be- to run
to vine. Spread sbfoadcast,o from
twenty-five to thirty-One horse loads
of any well:rQtted manure worked
| fine, I(yegetabie manure generally
preferred, tho ugh Some stable manure
will notf come arnlss,9 per acre be-
fore blowing, then PRHt, four .ocs,five
inches .deep, ttlrning- under The man
ure as evenly aSzp0ssihle ;rtllep spread
f>br0adeast thirty,ttO fly bushels. OF
shell lime per acre, narrowing with
light iroAateutk harrow, and brush or
roll smooth; then mark Off the field
in three feet squares; havezt the rows
straight, C making the marks about
two Inches deep, or raise a slight hill
at thelinterseetion or the mhrks. :.
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Shell the nuts carefully, SO as to
not reak the skin, drop three to five
kernels in 'thei,haI ,.drop theagrains
felSea tDgether, as fn cultKating early
it is necessary to work as close as
possible, and not iniurer the plant.
CoverE one. and a,,half,orltwo inches
deep, with well pulverized soil. Some
writers on the subject recommend five.
inches, but my experience Of three
seasons here has proved that the
depth L have mentioned, as 4 general
rule, is the best on my land. A. por-
!. ton Of my patch did not come up,
7 towing to deep covering, until the
middle of June though i. planted
immediately after corn, about The 18th
of Nav. slsPiAnting should BE done as
i,sSon as possible inrAfay, as the peanut
Y needs all the season. to mature. The
temperature of the soil should be
about 90 degrees Fahrenheit, though l
have planted wheR it WIS much
| lower. - isiH etab s-di - . t'lcs b
CULTIVATION an fiir,. "a
/ zAs SOON as the rows can be- seen,
begin to work the ground around the
plants Use a potato digger or small
| iron toOth.rake, these tools being
much better fol" the purpose than
hoe, as there is less danger Of cutting
rows with some tool that will throw
the dirt slightly toward the hills. Il
use KnOx's Horse Hoe, throwing the
earth first to the centre, then revers-
ing the toeth.and throwing the earth
outward. As the fingers or shoots of
the plant spread (which they do in
circular FORM l hin up, but do not
disturb the shoots, making the hills
about four inches high, and at the
] last ,hoeing the hills are fifteen to
| twenty inches across, The Idea adj
vanced by some of covering the BIOS
! SONS with dirt or soil, 1 found by act
ual experiment, to be useless. 1t is
true that the shoots were pressed
more .6rmly to the ground, and per-
hApS cahsed the small shoot from the
blossom to start much quicker, but all |
the nuts in those hills were much
smaller than the rest of the crop
there were also more nuts in the hills
covered; But as stated, all smaller
fstsrHsturity. No grass or weeds
sh0Hd be allowed to grow among the
vines, as they are yeyy sensitive, on
such matters. When the cultivator
beahs no longer be, used without dis
tufbing. the plants, they must be
worked by hand. .Cmtivating and
hoeing twice is generally sufficient.
HARvEsTfSiG, ']'f. - %
= In climates where the growing sea-
son is long enough there is no trouble,
but here it is necessary to watch the
weather, and if the crop is exposed
after. gathering to the frost, it must
be housed without delay, as q Slight
nipping will cause them to rot before
they can dry. If they can be left on
the,hilIs after digging for week, so
much the better, but for the last two
seasons have been forced to take up
my vines sooner than I wished, for
fearaof the frost! AS soon as the frost
kills the vines dig the nuts, using
spading-fork, placing it at one side of
the hill and prying out the hill at
the same time take hold of the vine
with one hand and lift it, shake off
the dirt and turn the vine upside |
down on the hill, leave as dug for sew
eral days if no frost, if frosty, haul in
at once and put under cover. Pick
off sla nuts as soon as. possible, for if
left on the vines in a moist state, the
nutsviH heat and rot. Spread thinly
ION h heor, if possible over a room in
which there is a fire kept. and no
plastering ceiling. / cure by putting
them on the Slated floor of my hop
kiin, Having a cloth on the Stats and
a FIRE In the room below. The hot
air passing through, they soon dry,
when put them IN coarse bags or in
aaym-they Keep better in bags.
GENERAL REMARKS.
n The nuts must be shelled Just be-
fore planting, as, if exposed too long
to the air, the skin viii crack and in
jure the seed. One of the main points |
is to start the plants early and keep |
them growing without check. Care
full cultivation and proper manure |
will do it.-fAfy yield last season from
twelve hundred hills, WAS nine BUSH |
els of sound nuts = this season from
twenty-five yhundredahills, but thir-
teen bushels, of which nine were |
sound nuts, owing to the unfavorable |
season. "a dry season appeals to suit |
their nature best after they get a
start. 'FsI =
i have seen. it, stated that i'm the |
Southern States the yield varies from
thirty to fifty bushels per acre. ~, f-.
Yours truly, .ers- $50. -f'
-, :; II. BOWLER.
NoTEAThe object of blowing shall
low is this, the nut will not form
until the end of the root strikes the
hard ground Nneland Independent.
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ALBUMEN FROM, FISH EG GS.-Tbe
great demand for albumen fer manu-.
featuring purposes has led to the at
tempt to obtain it from every imagin-
able source, hens eggs being of course
the most expensive, and entirely in
sufficient to afford q supply. An ex-.
pertinent has recently been made by
DR.. ,Grune to utilize fish roes for this
purpose, these being obtaina BE from
many kinds of fish In immense guam.
titles, aud which are usually thrown
away when entirely ripe, these roes
are capable OF furnishing q large
Ismosinf Of albumen. and in this con-
dition are to be stripped from the in
vesting membrane, and made free
from adhesion as much as possible.
They are then placed in 81 We, rub
bed with stiff brush SO AS to break
up their contents and allow the albu.
men to pass through. This is to be
washed with water, to v !iich one
part of mmonia in three hundred is
to be added, so that the albuinen ad-
herring to the sieve, shall b. carried
through. The solution thus obtained
is to be placed in high vessels and al
lowed to stand for some days, and
when it becomes clear the altumen
can be poured off into fiat dishes, and
evaporated in. well ventilated rooms.
The cleaning is said to b. facilitated
by passing through coarse sand or
powdered glass The best rec for this