The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-01
Melilstus, Pecan, sheep-Sons Inter

Meluotus, Pecan, Sheep-Some Inter-
esting suggestions.
You will remember that some time back
YOU gave me name Of party to secure mill
lotus seed from.
/ had bushel and 1t was sown broad
cast early in March, but does not seem to
have come up at all. No one about here
seems to know the plant, except that some
claim it is the same as Lucern or Alfalfa.
This is not so, is it, During April and May
we hardly had any rain, and If you would
recommend sowing during rainy season,
would try again now.
Q. Also will you kindly tell me when
en- get some pecan nuts for seed OF good
variety. | want to try, in planting 2O-acre
piece in lemon trees, whether 2-acres Of
pecans across north end and 2-acres across
center would not be q great protection
from frost, and from your description of
their growth, etc., think that they would
be Just the thing.
In yesterdays edition of paper YOU have
an article on sheep. A good many grove
people have been talking about this lately
ana some are trying it, but don't think
that they have the breed you name,
"Merino.n We want something, as you say,
to help keep down weeds, keep land clean
and at same time fertilize; besides the
Cockleburr we have sandspur grass, Spanish
needle grass and others, that would in a
great many peoples opinion get SO mixed
up and tangled with the wool that it would
be hardly worth anything on the market. l
suppose that the above grasses and weeds
grow with you in Georgia. and you can,
therefore, speak with authority on this
point. Would be glad as well if you could
recommend me to some farmer who has
got some good, healthy, well-bred sheep.
Perhaps your neighborhood would be too
far from here to be safe to ship, and If
you don't know OF any one nearer Florida,
could YOU tell me best agricul tural paper to
put advertisement in9 think that it would
be much better to buy from district where
there are plenty of sheep in preference to
buying here. where they are likely to have
been interbreeding for years. T. c. F.
Macon, Fla.
Melilotus is not Alfalfa Tor Lucern), but
it resembles it somewhat. Mslilotus is a
biennial. Lucern is perennial.
1t should be sown as early in the season as
possible, say early in February.
That you may see what good thing we
are recommending to oHr stock farmers
send stamp to Prof. s. NJ. Tracy, Agri-
cultural College (P. o., Mississippi, for
bulletin No. 20 of that station. Perhaps
your seeds were not good, but as my own
seed came from the same place and proved
1rst-class | suspect iJ was the fault Of the
weather. Send for the bulletin.
:. You cannot get pecan seed now before
some time in October or November. BY
that time you will find the two best varie-
ties OF paper she'll advertised in the News.
The pecan tree is Of slow growth and would
hardly answer the purpose that you pro-
tn On,
quiFes ten or twelve years to bring them
into bearing; still you will do we'll to plant
agood size grove and go on planting the
l9ndln crops for a number of years. On
rich lands some trees may begin to bear at
SIX or seven years.
D. The article you refer to, you will
Observe, was quoted from the Ameri-
can CuItiudtOr. We regarded the
suggestions as valuable and worthy of
being acted upon. Surely you can get the
sheep at no very great distance from your
town. Still you might advertise in the
Southern LiUe Stock Journal at Meridian,
MISS, for what you wanted? II IL is pos
s.oIe TO keep them, more or less number
should be kept on every southern farm for
The purpose alluded to las we'll as for the
neat. We are sorry to report that very
lew are to be found in this section of Fiddle
Georgla. 1t ought not to be so, but it is.
and much to the detriment of our farmers.
We should neglect no longer the making
VI improved pastures and meadows pro-
uuclng in abundance beef and mutton and
PORK, thereby bringing our lands to a
state state OF fertility beyond what they origin
ally possessed.
Then we will be prosperous, but not be-
fore, We fear.
by Gil means try the Melilotus again. 1t
~ ia great renovator. Perhaps il fall sown
might succeed with you. We propose to
'eSt thls question this fall.