The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-04-16

entire plant, leaves as well as roots;
| and an analysis shows Mapgcls to te
i twice as nutritious as turnips and
equal to sweet potatoes, while their
Weld is simply enormous. Single
roots sown in February, on by no
means rich land, weighed twelve
pounds by the first of June. Planted
in two feet drills, thinned to one and
a half feet in the row, and Kept well
| plowed and hoed, they are as sure q
crop as grows; come OH ready to feed
to hogs and milk COWS IN May and
june, or can be left in ground until
wanted. They become somewhat pithy
in summer and fall, bnt stock cat them
with relish even then. have some of
my February planting that have stood
the long drouth, and will leave them
| to SEQ how they stand the winter
freezes. | planted some more in June
they came up well, and were growing
finely until dry weather stopped them.
Any ordinary summer and fall they
would havcm made good crop, but has
been too dry. L sOwcd again in Au-
gust and September too, but failed,
from dry weather, to get them up.
The seed do not gcrminate readily,
| when SoWn in warm weather, and
|
time TO SOW them. If, however, they
can be gotten up in July or August
and we have our usual rains, | think
they would make as large roots as
SWede turnips, or larger; and as they
arc twice as nutritious they arc Ger.
tainly worth planting then. This las
planting would be splendid to kcc,
until after Christmas to feed TO hor:
and cattle.
At the North they are sown in Ma,
and June and dug in the fall; put il
cellars or banked to use after the tur
nips arc gone. BY sowing the globe
shaped variety, U planted the long
rcd kind, and some Of them stant
twenty inches above the grountD ant
:. Milling earth up around them will
turn-plow, | think they would stant
, our winters without removal. / shal
f test this next year, and hope my writ
ing this article will induce others tc
give this most valuable root a trial.
! Given the distance mentioned above
, 2lXlS inches, will give over ll,OO(
roots 10 the acre; and these, at ter
pounds each, would yield seventy tons
per acre. This yield has often beer
made at the North and in Europe. Ol
course 1t will require rich land TO dc
it, but half this quantity per acre will
beat any other crop know of or
which to feed hogs and COWS.
b. II. TILLMAN.
Hamburg, $. {.
u. S.-I think it well, pcrhaps. tc
add that all bccls-of which ManncE
arc only species, or varirtv-rcuuirt
deep, rich soils and an abundance @
potash. Salt is also good manure
TOR them; and therefore liberal dress
ing of kainit-say 1000 pounds pei
ACRE, with 800 pounds each Of aci(
phosphate and cotton seed meal, broad
cast, and the ground we'll plowcd unt
narrowed several timcs-would, O,
ordinary land, in good heart, be likcl,
TO produce fine crop, besides render
ing the land rich for any succccdin.
f crop. 1t takes three pounds of seed tt
, sow an acre. They should be soakct
twelve hours and then rolled in land
f plaster or lcachcd ashes. A careful
hand can then drop three or four sect
every fifteen or eighteen inches, i,
shallow drills. If SoWn later tina,
April fifteenth the land should be roll
ed' They bear transplanting as wei
rs collards. | got seed from Pete
Henderson & Co., New York. B. II. II.
, IN southern CUNiU0tOr.