St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-01-05

drawback in the raising of peas
for seed is the great cost of harvesting
and beating them out. At the north
where beans are largely raised they
have satisfactory tean harvesters and
threshers. Southern inventive genius
has always been equal to the demands
upon it. If someone will invent sat
isfactory pea harvester and good pea
threshcr he will not only make q for.
tune for himself, but he will bring back
fertility to the south. 1t will increase
tenfold the growing of field pe..., be-
sides making a new crop for us to ship
to the north. These inventions will
stimulate the growing of field peas,
just as the invention of the cotton gin
stimulated the increased crop of cotton.
Then, too. a good peanut thresher 10
badly needed for the peanut crop. Pick.
ing of by hand is slow and expensive,
and none of the peanut threshers In.
vented SO far are satisfactory. They
break and shatter too many peanuts.
The price of cotton does not bid fair
to go up. The new area added every
year in Texas will continually overbal.
ance the worlds increased consump.
tion. Then there is the steadily in.
creasing production in India, Egypt
and Brazil. In Mexico the cotton
plant lives eight years and produces
two crops a year. Production there
has heretofore been small, owing to
lack of railroads and reliable
labor. This is being remedied.
To compete with country which can
produce sixteen crops of cotton from
one planting is like using a muzzlc
loader against sixteen shooter. Be
sides, all countries south of US, ire
spective of fertility, and no matter
how rich we shall make our lands,
have the advantage of us in the length
Of the season. We can not overcome
the disadvantage of onr short seasons
for cotton. In North Carolina it is
doomed, sooner or later. to disappear
as a market crop. We can substi-
tute many things. Grass is very
profitable if the land is made rich
enough, because it takes SO little In.
Dor. Two weeks out of the fifty.
two-one week in June to NOW and one
week later to bale up, is enough
while cotton or tobacco require the
year round. The field pea offers the
advantage of abundant forage, a steady
improver Of our lands, good fattcner
for cattle and hogs, and q crop to ship
north. The draw back in the great cx-
pense OF harvesting and preparing for
market should be overcome. The south
will reward with wealth and honor the
man who will furnish the harvester
and thresher that will enable us to in.
crease ten-fold this crop. = Waiter
Clark, in Southern Cuitivator.
Rules for Rotation.
Enough has been stated to show tbs
necessity of Il change of crops. and tho
following are found to be the best rules
to observe in practice:
l. Crops of the same species. and even
OF the same natural order. should not
succeed each other
2. Plants with perpendicular roots
should succeed those with spreading
and superficial roots. and vice versa.
8. Crops which Occupy the soil for
several years Qilsc aspa ravus. rhubarb.
short duration.
4. Two crops alike fav~able to the
growth of weeds should not occupy the
soil in succession.
). Crops abstrac;ing largely from
the soil the sulphates, phosphates and
nitrogenous principles should not fol-
low each other Immediately, but be
succeeded by those which draw less
from soil and more from the atmos-
phere. These exhausting crops should
follow and be followed by those which
bear and will profit by Leavy mannr-
ing.
6. Plants grown for their roots or
bulbs should not follow those grown
for the same purpose: and still less
should plants grown for their seeds
follow each other directly in success
sion.-Florida Times-U Union.