Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1897-04-30
NOT YET TOO LATE TO PLANT.
New ORLEANS, La,
audubon Park.


people have the profound sympa-
thy of the rest Of Louisiana, and
we sincerely mourn that after
o heroic fight you should be forced
to face an overflow.
Now, as to the subject of your
letter. If the foods subside suf-
ficiently by the middle of June, l
see no reason Why you should not
utilize your fields for the planting
of cotton, corn and peas, if it be
properly done. You can immedi-
ately follow up the overflow with
cotton, and If. you will use some of
the earlier varieties, and if it be
possible to obtain seed grown in
North Carolina, Tennessee or
Southern Virginia, you can easily
make crop of cotton in the re-
mainder Of the season, provided,
of course, that the frost does not
come earlier than in an average
season. The varieties of cotton
known as King, Tennessee, Gold
dust, &c. are used in the Northern
portion of. the cotton belt, and if
seed can be obtained of the yari-
cites grown IN those localities,
there is no. question whatever of
the fact that it will produce good
crops in the time allotted you.
This seed can be planted as the
water subsidies.
With corn and peas 1 would sug-
gest an entirely different course.
Before preparing for the planting
of corn, l would see that the water
has been entirely removed from
your soil, your drains and bitches
we'll opened, and your land
, thoroughly bedded. and dried. Il
this be done, and varieties of corn
of the earlier sort, grown perhGp'
"a far North % Missouri, Kansas
, or Southern Indians, be used, and
sown IN the drill rather thiekly,
do not think that you will, fail il
making q crop. 1t is true thai
cut worms and wire worms ar
most abundant at this. season o.
the year and on overlooked soils
but if our land be we'll drained be
! fore the corn is planted, and thu
: corn put in the drill rather thick
ly, the depredations of these ami
finals will be reduced to q mini
: mum, and the excessive quantit,
lof corn used will still leave |
u stand sufficient for good. crop
y The same may be said of peas
:: with this exception: that all pea
planted late in the.season upol
ldry, good land, will make pod
q instead of vines, and hence You
d planters can easily make q GRO
! of peas after june 30th.
e / speak advisedly when I writ
the above remarks. l have plant
q ed cotton after an cat crop lat
f in June, and made an average Q
" over q, bale to the acre, usin
f homegrown seed,
n usually make the second plant
ing of peas in July, in order t
obtain, upon our. allnvial hand;
seed peas fof the next year. Whe
we plant here in May OF. early j
= June, our peas'go 10 vines and q
= not produce seed enough to rt
!, plant the land, and By resortin
% to the later planting we obtai
y seed peas for another year.
\ By corresponding with the Ale,
3, ander Seed & Drug Co., Augusti
RS Ca, T. w. Wood & Son, Ricl
: mond, Va, and other reputab
! seed houses, they can'furnish yc
ID with the cotton seed desired; or
or mot, can put you in comniunicI
le ton with farmers OF planters j
= their neighborhood who can sul
W ply you.
re The acquaintance of your poop
n !, perhaps, with st. Louis will el
= able them to select their seed col
20 ifrom that city, preferring the Ne
ct Madrid, or some good Kaneas cor
p 1 am quite sure that, if the d
rections which / have. given
III this letter be followed, good GRO
20 of corn and cotton viii be pr
Is dueod and m ahuD1anca ~ no