The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1895-06-13

Black. 1t will remain in ground all
winter without injury. Everlasting,
Fed and Red Ripper are also good.
., For an .'all purpose" pea the On
known leads the list. Clay, however,
closely contests first place. Unknown
and Wonderful are Identical.
DO not these facts and does not our
own experience, where we have tested
THIS crop, teach US that the pea is of
sunclent Importance, not only to be
sown IN the corn as secondary crop,
put to demand place of its own as
instinct and separately cultivated
| source of profit?
After the small grain is harvested
the land can be utilized with great ad-
vantage in crop of peas, sown either
broadcast or in three feet rows. By
the latter plan sometimes one and al
ways two plowings with sweep, will
90 the necessary work. If the peas are
broadcast and plowed in the crop of
craograss hay, which comes simultane-
ously with the pea crop, detracts moth
ing from its value for hay and renders
its successful curing a matter of less
olhculty. The same may be said of
any held unoccupied by other crops.
SPANISH GRoUNDPEAs, CANE, ETC,
should be planted by June /, but
good crop is often made when planted
as late as the middle of the month
Amber cane planted now will be ready
Tor feeding in September, and recent
experiments show its high food value,
not only for hogs, but for dairy cows.
Horses and mules are also very fond of
1t, but 1t should not be grown in too
great abundance Mixed with some
dry food it cannot injure. Forage corn
can still be planted and will be ready in
time for the silo. Too little attention
has heretofore been given to ensilage,
but with the increasing interest in
stock raising and dairying it will not
be long before almost every farm will
have its quota of we'll cured and cut
green food for winter feeding.
ORCHARDS,
too, should be looked after and not al
lowed to grow up in rank grass and
tall weeds that take up large part of
the fertility in the soil. The orchards
should be cultivated as we'll as the
other fields, and the latter part of this
month crop of peas broadcast will not
only keep down all other foreign
growth, but prove a wonderful reno
vator. In the fall the hogs can be
turned in to gather the crop, or the
vines may be allowed to decay on the
land, and when tarned under later will
furnish store of humus and nitrogen
which will gladden. our eyes and pal
ates In the abundant fruit crop of the
succeeding year.
COTTON.
This crop should be growing apace.
Frequent and shallow plowings will
now promote rapid growth. Two trips
to the row with 0inch xcrape, or one
with an expanding cultivator or 22-inch
scrape will do the work very effectively.
When the fruit begins to form the in
tervals between plowings can be length
ened because we want the plant to
throw all its strength into squares and
hollis and redundant foliage, or rapid
growth is not desired. Even after the
fruit begins to form If the cotton is too
much crowded don't hesitate to thin it,
In the usual summer drouth the crowd
ed cotton always suffers most.
Our inquiry columns this month
cover large variety of subjects, each
of interest to the man who digs his
living from the ground -
r. T. NEsBlTT, Commissioner.