Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1895-08-29
FARMER AND PLANTER.
THE FESTIVE oooeeR.


Zen wclborne Gives some Facts on the
Subject.
see You ask for information about
the cultivation of COOLERS. as to
whether 1T is right to cover the
blooms. No; they bloom above ground
and the embryo goober is formed, then
the stem lepgthens until the tuber is
driven into the surface OF the ground.
sun do not know that covering
hurts them. | have had but little
uctual experience In goober culture
outside OF the Spanish goober, which
Is u very prolific and hardy kind, be-
ing no more trouble to cultivate than
COW pea, and extremely early.
Ninety days is all the time necessary
10 produce as many bushels of goober
per acre and two tons OF hay, equal to
clover, on land too sandy for clover,
ana that, would not produce over
thirty bushels of corn. And there is
no stock have ever tried that does
not prefer the COOLERS to corn or any
other hay. Now, when we consider
now cheaply they can be made and
harvested, and how that even when all
COOLERS and vines are removed the
land is improved and left in finest con-
dition for fall crops of any kind, is 1t
| not strange they are not more extern
slvely cultivated, both north and south?
The time for planting and cultivation
Is about the same as for beans. They
are harvested by pulling up the vines.
All the COOLERS hang on to the vines
and come up with them. They can be
left to cure one day and then stacked
as peavine hay; or the pulling up of the
vines can extend over two or three
weeks time and they be cured in the
loft; or by placing alternate layers
OF dry straw or hay they car
be cured in the loft, and the straw OF
hay be somewhat improved by the
vines; or the vines can be grazed
Off by cattle, and COOLERS rooted out
and eaten by hogs. shall plant near
ly all of my little upland homein Span
ish COOLERS this spring, and plant the
same land in the Tennessee Triumph
potato in August The vines and goo
bers will be harvested for our LITTLE
dairy, and the potatoes for the winter
market in our little town, and for salt
In the spring for seed
There is nothing upon the globe tina
will make half as cheap or sweet gol
den butter during the winter as Span
ish COOLERS feed vines with goober
on them), cotton seed, and yam Sweet
patatoes. And l can almost say til,
same OF Spanish COOLERS and cottol
seed alone. Our cows have been going
dry before Christmas on common hay
meal and cotton seed BY substitution,
goober hay with COOLERS on) for othe
hay, our cows kept up full flow o
milk until calving time this spring
and winter butter at the south Away
commands double that of spring o
summer butter. '''" ''i
Irish potatoes at the south are neve
sold for less than 81 per bushel between
October and March. and to-day ar
selling at S2 and s2.2 per bushcl. An
there is no mistake but what we ca
now make all the potatoes at the sout
the south needs, and of most superio
quality, by planting in August see
from the spring crop. The trouble ha
been that we could not always succee
In getting the tubers to sprout in An
gust. This is now obviated by thor
oughly preparing the land, plantin
the Tennessee triumph, or fall potato
and cutting the tubers instead {
planting the small ones whole, a
: heretofore. There is surelya new or
dawning upon the south; this fall pc
tato business, the cotton harvestin
machinery, dairying, and general shec
and cattle raising On our six to min
months pasture, with waste products
such as cotton, pea-vines, gooberi
crabgrass hay, etc.-Jeff Welborn,
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