The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1897-10-23
SHERIFF HODGES LETTER
On the Use aud Cultivation Of the Pea
nut Or Pindar.

Clcnt hlGh cXccutlOnerS That ever
performed the duties Of the office
in Marion county, as well rs one
Of the best and most successful
farmers that ever cultiva Ted its
soil, in an interesting and in
structive letter, written by re-
quest of Judge w. a. Hooker to
the Leesburg Commercial and
published Oct, 18th, gives some
good advice to the farmers Of that
section, extra cts Of which the Star
reprints.
Fftecn years ago on his farm
at EImWOod he planted some pin
dars y ith other crops and noticed
when he turned his horses into
this field they sought the pindars
IN preference to all other feed in
the field.
He then gathered several Wag-
on loads Of vines and nuts and as
he fed them during the winter,
his horses showed the same pref
erencc for them over other feed
that they had in the field. This
fact led him to plant more exten
sively and he says:
"The next spring | planted Is
acres and that fall gathered 80
rack loads off of five acres, and
filled all the house room [ had,
and did not dig the other ten
acres because | had no shed room
to put them in. The follow ing
spring latter feeding my horses
and COWS, four head, on pindars
all winter), | saw that | would
have more than | would need to
feed on, and | picked off 100 bush
els and sold them for ,5 cents per
bushel, aud every year since then
| and my neighbor have planted
piudarS for stock feed. | forgot
to say that after gathering all
you can you will not be likely to
have hogs enough to eat what is
left in the ground, Off Of tiftoon
acres this year, | have filled four
barn lofts, one shed on side OF
barn, have one stack in tie field
in which | know there is = hum
dred bushels, and have one hun
dred and fifty bushels that | had
picked Off in the field. Tbs was
an an Old field that was formerly
mixed oak and pine land that
would make an average OF ten
bushels of corn per acre.
zone pint of pindars to lne hill
would be ,G bushels to the acre,
if there was o good stand. |
picked several hills, none O which
made less than a pint and several
nearly quart.
He says almost any light, sandy
soil will make good pindars He
deems the small Georgia pindar
tie best.
He further says that the PIN
dar crop is the most profitable
that can be grown il the state
and believes q fortune awaits the
man that puts up a pintar oil
mill. He says the Spanish pindar
is another very valuable variety
It natures earlier and is good to
plant late OH land on which q veg.
etable crop has been grown,
"My mode Of cultivation is tc
flush my land in February With a
turning plow about six inches
deep. Ia March | check it of
with q G-inch shovel three feet
each way, and drop two seed il
the furrow III each check, cover
ing with a board (that make nay.
self for the purpose) fastened BY
a bolt to an ordinary ploW stock
and cultivate as needed with {
sweep set to run fiat, plowtng t
run first one way and then The
other. With this mode Of cult.
walton the hoe IS hardly needed
but should there be any blnche:
of grass left III the hills about th'
first to the fifteenth of June,
Get some Young darkies 10 rul