The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-28
Tapping" Crops.

ding in another crop LetoIe Tue previous
a, has been taken out of the way. For
:.stsnce. where Irish potatoes are planted
= +bree foot rows it is quite a common
-,sctice when the potatoes are laid by in
Anril or early May to plant corn in every
s.hor middle. A light furrow is opened
9Th a small pillow, and the corn covered
18th the hoe or foot. The finest corn we
have ever made was thus planted the latter
-, of April. In market gardening espe-
a;allv these occasions are numerous where
tbis nlan is uracticable and highly profitable.
Pa little forethought being exercised in
the planting of the first crop there are in
.tances where this plan may be observed in
s,,cb way as to give the second crop a
tart three to six weeks earlier than would
=. obtained if one waited for the first crop
10 vacate the land entirely before putting in
,ba second. Let us enumerate a few of
these, as the illustrations may be pregnant
with suggestion to others.
The most frequent resort to this practice
is found in that of planting peas in the
middles Of the corn when the latter is laid
by in May or June. The majority Of farm
ers at one time observed this practice, and
it will be wise thing for any who have
forsaken the plan to return to it again.
While it may be an old practice it ac-
cords with the precepts of modern agricul-
ture Science in the highest degree where
it is always urged to secure in every way
possible the return to the soil of all vegeta-
bic matter possible. Where corn is
planted in rows five to six feet apart it is
always feasible to secure a half crop of
peas and fair supply of vegetable matter,
which can be converted into stock food or
humus, just as the farmer may choose to
have it. This pea crop does not appreciably
diminish the yield of corn.
We suggest few instances where clap
ping" is specially profitable in the market
garden, where it is always desired to make
the most possible on a limited area of good
land Where rich land is plentiful, and no
occasion exists for nice arrangement as to
cropping, of course the practice is not called
for.
In planting onion sets in the fall October
or November if every other row is set with
q very early variety like the NEW green"
pearl that either natures bulb by May 1,
or that attains such a size as to render it
marketable with profit early in April be-
fore it is full grown these rows can be taken
out of the way, and crop of tomatoes, egg
plant, or sweet potatoes can be started some
weeks before the other rows are harvested.
Tomatoes may get almost ready to bear
before the last alternate rows are removed, If
these rows were planted to a very late
growing kind.
And the same practice holds good in
planting a crop of Irish potatoes, if every
other row is planted with very early kind,
like E Ohio, Hebron, rose, etc., and the al
ternate rows with late grower like NAM
moth pearl, burbank, elephant, etc., the
early kinds may be taken out for market
some weeks earlier than the late kinds, and
the rows from which they were taken may
be planted to corn. tomatoes, sweet potatoes
or beans.
Dwarf English peas, planted late in the
fall or even early in January in rows three
feet apart, allow of second crop of toma-
toes, corn, beans, squashes, cucumbers or
melons being started on the same land two
or three weeks before the peas have ceased
bearing, and the vines ready to be re-
Two scooter burrows run close right
in the middle of the pea rows make seed
bed sufficient for the starting Of the second
crop, and the beds can be very satisfactorily
finished after the first crop is removed.
In the case of vine plants that require
greater distance in the row than three feet,
every third row can be taken, or every
third middle. as the case may he.
In the small garden, where the rows are
made close together Us to "a inches, say.
and the crops only cultivated with hoe and
garden plow. second crop can only be
started satisfactorily as rows are vacated
by the matured crops. Under this plan in
the highest degree intensive it is impera-
tive that the soil be kept in high state of
fertility by heavy applications once a year.
Broadcast topdressings in the fall of suita-
bic manure is altogether the best plan of
applying it. Much of this manure should
be of an organic nature-aninal or vegeta-
be- Stable manure from well-fed horses
Vi lAuloo. bOSS1noI WIN phosphate anu DOD-
ash in sufficient quantity to restore all ele-
ments taken off by the previous crops
should be applied at least once a year. If
you would reap freely the manure must be
supplied freely. 1t is the raw material of
the crops that cultivation stamps the value
Of.
FIELD PEAS AS MONEY CROP.
For the past two or three years our field
peas have been much sought after by New
Orleans buyers, and their agents bought
every bushel they could get in this section,
the past season paying 81 per bushel for
them.
These buyers will, doubtless, be in the
market again this winter and take all that
is offered at this price. This should encour-
age our farmers to take little more pains
with this crop, and grow as many as posi-
Ole. Making the corn land produce what it
can by sowing carefully in the niddles at
the laying by of the corn. And IN addition
TO this make special planting on such land
as 1t is designed to devote to small grain in
October.
A crop of peas is a fine preparatory crop
tor oats, and this plan of alternating peas
and oats should be a marked feature of
southern farm policy.
1t Is easy enough to get crop of peas and
cats from the same land. Gather the peas