The Dawson journal., 1883-01-25

waiting the chufa for stock feel. The
discussiol is by NJ mans anew one,
We. We g.Ee his la5est lrsialy il r.
gar5 to thesuccess tai. has a ten /
ed his ogl experiments
I am little slrpris II tina there Is,
not more general cultivation of the
chufa (Cyperus csc lleutus) f1r sto TX
food. 1 have had very urge ey-
periencs with it in tia last eight or
ten years, aad say without hesitation
that think it is uneqIaliel f'r the
purpose all BELIEF it y-il Z farther
for the money AMI labor expen led,
in The wa7 of making po-k th4a any
othec fo) laow Of, not eyel ex
cepti SRA. To iIlastra'9 this, L
will g.y9 yol \ few samples OF my
own all s)ne OF my neighb ors Ii ne,
a1d am bol5et prepared II d. 5, al
this time, 50 far as [ an ,ncerneA.
from the faet tAat | have jlst stsler
ed my crop and have male careful
note of It's pro .sross from The sowing
of the seed to th5 di 5g,ng of the
tubeis.
I should say, however, by way of
premise, that il is rather nv purpose
to give c99 LIS tlal to go iato de-
tails as 70 the M le of cultivation,
for fear that my contribution to your
columns would otherwise exceed pro
Pertbouhds.
In previous years, it has been my
practice, and that OF my predecessor,
to dig only what was needed for seed
the next season and then. turl the
hogs III on the crop. Very little o5-
servation was necessary t. discover
that the porkers enjoyed the arrange
ment immensely and grew ''as fat as
they could wallow'' without any
recourse to the corn crib. NY neigh
bors, some Of whom have been in
the habit fot mny years back of
pursuing the sane course, relate TO
me similar experience. One of
them, a gentleman OF Intelligence,
coupled with lar5s experience in
pork making, state in al liSiol thai
he one ye,.r butchered his hogs d.
rect from "the chlfa patch without
giving tAem grain OF cocI and
never had better or firmer pork in
his life. 1t has been the practice
with US, however, to throw them o
little corn before converting them in-
to bacon. E
Now, |, will show you what has
been stne yield this year: Having
prepared the ground thoroughly, and
MANFRED in the drills three feet apart
with ground bone and cotton seed
meal, about the middle of April I
plans ed little less than half an acre
n chufas. The crop was worked
twice after that and then ''Iaid BY"
About the LIST of August, finding
a fine growth of tops, l moved them
off, getting about a ton of as nice
hay as one could wish to look at. 1
find both cattle and mules eat of it
with evident relish I am nov about
done, gathering the ehufas. and fad
have sixty nine bushels, or cql2l
to a6olt 15) Bushels to the acre.
Tas sill from which this crop was
tax L is light, loose, sandy loan
POOR piley woods land made moder-
ateR rich By the use of artificial
mandr4s, and [ firmly believe that by
increl ing the amolnt OF manure
one-hAlf, the yield would have been
m 5re than doubled.
Here we have on land that would
be IA 'ight doing well to yield twenty
five to thirty bushels of corn to the
acre, giving Us $50 bashels as rich
and nutritious hog foo Or fve-tin9s
as nachf without taking ilto account
the hay. All thel besides there
still remains in the ground for the
hogs very nsarly-as much more, for
it is next. to fmpo s5ib,e to gather
much more than half the crop.
But it should BE borne in mind, as
Unlimited in the begianilg, That tie
chufa is not crop t. besgpsasr9l =
this should be the hogs business -
for the process is tedious an axpel-
sive, and the curing of the seed and
saving it until planting time, is at
tended with more or less loss.
This experience is ha in the lower
South, where the climate is mil an
the su ners long, but as between
the spring and fall frosts only five
months are required for planting and
maturing the crop, | see no reason
why equally sabisfdct 1ry results may
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