Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1893-03-02
SPLENDID MONEY CROPS.
Good Substitutes for Cotton that Will
Paw Well.

of hardship and deprivation, because
OF misdirected and uneducated etfor'
A large majority Of this sorely press
ed class raise too much cotton ana
too little of the food products. In
every instance where the farmer raises
plenty of feed stuff and meat he lives
well and is reasonable prosperous.
This much as Introductory to some
extracts we give below, as to profita-
BILE money crops, "a good substitute
for cotton from Mr.. JEFF Welborn.
practical farmer of New Boston,
Tex, written for the Dallas News Of
Feb. 2Sth. Read carefully his sound
and sensible method Of farming:
The South must have more than
one money crop and more than one
forage crop. On dry years the one
forage crop, corn, seldom does well
on sandy uplands, but cotton and all
other shade plants do best these dry
seasons, and on the wet years cotton
does not fruit well. One season
Spanish goobers will make twice as
much forage as corn on poor or very
sandy lands, and on dry seasons three
or four times as much, They are no
more trouble to cultivate than COW
pea, will make in from 80 to 100 days
planted in April, will be ready to
harvest in July, are harvested by
pulling up vines as we used to pull
up COW peas in the old States. The
COOLERS all hang to and come up with
the vine. A hand can pull up
enough to winter q milk cow or feed
horse three months in single day.
| grew them last year that made a
quart of COOLERS to the single hill.
We have our rows about three or
three and half feet apart and drop
too COOLERS about every eighteen
inches in the drill at cotton planting
time. A drouth that would ruin a
corn crop would be the making of the
goobers
Next to goobers COW peas come for
forage on those dry seasons on poor
or very sandy land
But how about the substitute
money crop? When the goobers or
COW peas are harvested in July, fol-
low close upon the harvesters with
plow and harrow, roller or log
drag, or take up in the after
noon and plow and harrow the
next morning, and harrow once a
week until the first good season after
the lst of August, which is nearly
always the middle of the month in
the northern part of the cation belt
and last of August in the Southern
part Lay off rows same width as
for the COOLERS and plant Irish pota.
toes. Cover with four furrows with
turning plow, Always cut the pota-
to; never plant whole potato in sec
ond or fall crop, because the whole
tuber may lie without sprouting un-
til spring, while the cut potato will
come right up, if there is sufficient
moisture, to u perfect stand.
1t is not necessary to sprout them
before planting if cut But the land
must be pulverized very fine, so as to
hold moisture. Never plant second
crop of potatoes on the same land the
spring crop grew on. But grow, if
possible, shade crop, such as Span.
ish COOLERS or peas. Those gather
nitrogen and carbonic acid from the
atmosphere, which is not only food
but causes the land to crumble well
and hold moisture.
A few days after covering the po-
tatoes with four turning plow furrows,
drag off with a log or harrow and
again every week until the potatoes
shows above ground. When up suf.
fcient TO work run around with side
harrow or sweep. A few days later
lay BY with turning plow, running
shallow, but wrapping the dirt up
around the plant.
Now, what variety to plantH BY
all means, If possible, plant the Ten
nessee Triumph. 1t was originated
for this purpose in Tennessee a few
years ago, and will nearly double any
other variety in marketable potatoes,
at the south, planted either in the
spring Or fall. The fall crop i'm.
proves II for earliness, quantity and
quality, and in all makes it far su-
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