The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-04-21

THE ARTIcHoKE.

different States say abont F:
One writing from Chambers coup~
ty. Ala, says it yielded at he rate
1900 bushels per acre. As crop
for hog feed, cannot be excelled
A gentleman f,om South, writes
that he planted the B aziIiao. Feb
ruary 18th, grew 7 teet high, the
stalks, and yielded at the rate Of
1000 hasbal- per acre
One writing from Kentucky seys
be dug u bushels from planting 2
quarts
Another from Nebraska: Planted
the Red Brazilian, yielded 900 bush
els per acre. II is valuable sub
stitute for corn.
From Pennsylvania Ny Brazil
ian Artichoke yielded 800 bushels
per acre and bat for unreasonable
weather would doubtless have bar
vested several hundred bushels
more.
Several reporting from West Vir-
GINA state their yields to average
$50 bushels.
One farmer writing from Roude
county, Michigan reports at the rate
of 100 bushels per acre.
Another from Wisconsin says,
MY hogs prefer them to corn.
One from Illinois On my soil
which when we'll MANFRED, yields 70
bushels of corn, made at the rate OF
1000 bushels per acre, did not dig
them until april Horses, COWS,
pigs aud sheep eat them with rel
ish."
1t is not necessary TO produce any
further testimony as to their yield
and general Y lue. Col. Scott,
OF Iowa, raises them on large scale
and gets from 400 up to 1900 BUSH
els per acre His poorest land be-
ing made to produce 400 bushels.
His hogs never suffer from cholera
and he attributes this in a great
measure to the Artichoke.
Let us plant artichokes by all
means, and let us raise hogs cheaply
and revive the days when back
bones, spare ribs, pigs feet, souse,
sausage, fried ham, &C., were not
the great luxuries that they now
are. Though there are not many
likely to grow rich rapidly in falm~
Jog now. days, still all may live
we'll if they choose, if they are will
ing to enter whole .souled' into their
work and adopt the necessary divers
sity of food crops, growing all neces'
sary cotton to provide what they
cannot raise
Since the above was written, /
have the testimony OF d.. NJ II.
Zellner, of AshvilIe. Ala, very in
teligent farmer and producer Of one
of the tinest varieties of cluster cot
tom known to Southern farmers -
.Ffs writes thos Of ths aftichoke is
is one Of the most valuable crops
tina. | have ever cultivated, il will
producemore stock food per acre
than anything have ever tried, and
it does not require more than halt
the labor that is necessary to pro-
duce crop Of corn. II keeps per,
fectly in the ground the coolest win
ters. 1t is the most rampant pleni
that have ever cultivated, milk
cows eat it more prcedily than any.
thing have ever fed to cattle, and
hogs will do their own gathering aud
winter fneIy on it. regard it as
Improving to soil aud wtbatands
droa,hs we'll
ussiagault 'ha famous French
agricultural chemist, says of ii: o.
all .ha pla IS ,ha' eng &c the "rm
ers. be ArtieboSt is sat which pro
dueo. the most. al he least eNpeuee
al ,osuu.e -nd maun4 boz The}
can ba er Wu on tho same grau't
for itars (spp3irg mArore 81
eop Da.l.w au. wd p odu II
tons eiaber atd IL 4 cs and over
OF stems he os'eems the ardchok
esp ciai, as pact ration IN The
winter for horses. 70 keep them
heailay.