The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-08-17
FARMER AND PLANTER
The FESTIVE oooBER.

The FESTIVE oooBER.
5S8 Welborne Gives Some Facts on tine {
Subject.
n see you ask for information ABOUT
the cultivation of COOLERS, as 10
Whether it is right TO cover the
blooms. MOI they bloom above GROUND
and the embryo goober Is formed, tnen
the stem lepgthens until the tuoer
driven into the surface of the ground
Still do not know that covering
hurts them. I have had but little
actual experience In goober culture
outside of the Spanish goober. when
is very prolific and hardy kind, DO
ing no more trouble to cultivate than
. COW pea, and extremely early |
Ninety DAYS is all the time necessary
to produce as many bushels OF gooper
per acre and two tons of hay, equal 10
clover, on land too sandy for clover
and that would not produce over
! thirty bushels of corn. And there II
no stock have ever tried that 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
COOLERS and vines are removed the
land is improved and left in finest con-
<iition for fall crops of any kind, Is 1t
not strange they are not more exteh.
sively 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.
N mn, IN the vines
and come up with them. They can be
left to cure one day and then stacked
as peaviuc hay; or the pulling up OF the
vines can extend over two or thre'
weeks time and they be cured in thu
loft; or by placing alternate layer
of dry straw or hay they cal
be cured in the loft, and the straw o
hay be somewhat improved by tn
vines; or the vines can be Craze
a. on by cattle. and COOLERS rooted GU
- and eaten by hogs. shall plant neal
iy all of my little upland home in Spar
: = ssh COOLERS this spring, and plant tn
same land in the Tennessee Trump
potato in August. The vines and go
bers will be harvested for our hit
dairy, and the potatoes for the wint'
. market in our little town. and for sa
in the spring for seed.
There is nothing upon the globe tn
will make half as cheap or sweet 81
den butter during the winter as Spa
ISL poobers feed vines with goooe
on them), cotton seed, and yam (swet
patatoes. And l can almost say
same of Spanish COOLERS and colt
seed alone. Our cows have been goil
dry before Christmas on common hs
meal and cotton seed. BY substitute
goober hay with COOLERS onl for OFT
hay, our cows kept mp full flow
milk until calving time this spriI
and winter butter ut the south alws
commands double that OF spring
summer butter.
Irish potatoes at the south are ne
sold for less than 81 per bushel betw'
~ October and March. and to-day
selling at So and 81. IS per bushel.
there is no mistake but what we
now make all the potatoes at the so
the south needs, and of most super
quality, by planting in August s
from the spring crop. The trouble
been that we could not always succ
in getting the tubers to sprout In
gust. This is now obviated by Il
oughly preparing the land, plant
the Tennessee triumph. or fall pot
and cutting the tubers instead
planting the small ones whole
heretofore. There is surely new
dawning upon the south; this fall
tato business, the cotton harves
machinery, dairying. and general 81
and cattle raising on our six to
months pasture. with waste prod'
such as cotton, pea-vines, gool
crabgrass hay, etc.-Jeff Welbor
4 Farmers Call.