St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-09-21
FARMER AND PLANTER
THE FESTIVE GOOBER.

V~" NeAuOEue 0stve8 sumo r ACTS % t0e
Subject.
see you ask for information about
the cultivation of COOLERS. Is to
whether 1t is right to cover the
blooms. No; they bloom above ground
ana the embryo goober is formed, then
the stem lengthens until the tuber is
driven into the surface Of the ground.
Still do not know that covering
h"rts them. have had but little
actual experience in goober culture
outside OF the Spanish goober, which
Is 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,
and that would not produce over
thirty bushels of corn. And there is
no stock / have ever tried chat does
not prefer the COOLERS to corn or any
other hay. Now, when we consider
how cheaply they can be made and
harvested, and how that even when all
goooers and vines are removed the
land Is improved and left in finest con.
dition for fall crops of any kind, il it
not strange they are not more exten.
siveiy cultivated, both north and south?
ihe time for planting and cultivation
Is ABOUT the same As for beans. They
are harvested by pulling up the vines.
All the goobers hang on to the vines
ana 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 can
oe cured in the loft, and the straw or
hay be somewhat improved by the
vines; or the vines can be grazed
OH by cattle. and goobers rooted out
and eaten by hogs. shall plant near
~ all OF my little upland home in Span
lsh goobers 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 sale
In the spring for seed.
There is nothing upon the globe that
Will make half as cheap or sweet gol-
den butter during the winter rs Span
,sh COOLERS feed vines with goobers
on them, cotton seed, and yam (sweet)
patatoes. And l can almost say the
same OF Spanish COOLERS and cotton
seed alone. Our cows have been going
dry before Christmas on common hay,
meal and cotton seed. BY substituting
goober hay with goobers on) for other
hay, our cows kept up full flow of
milk until calving time this spring,
and winter butter at the south always
double that of spring or
butter
Irish potatoes at the south are never
sold for less than 81 per bushel between
October and March. and to-day are
selling at So and s. IS per bushel. And
there is no mistake but what we can
now make all the potatoes at the south
The south needs. and of a most superior
quality, by planting in August seed
from the spring crop. The trouble has |
been that we could not always succeed |
in getting the tubers to sprout in Au-
gust. This is now obviated by thor
'ughly preparing the land, planting
he Tennessee triumph. or fall potato.
Ind cutting the tubers instead of
the small ones whole, as
There is surely a new era
iawning upon the south; this fall po-
alto business, the cotton harvesting
dairying. and general sheep
Ind cattle raising on our six to nine
months pasture. with waste products.
'uch as cotton, pea-vines. goobers,
:rabgrass hay, etc.-Jef Welborn, in
Farmers Call.