The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-12-20
DIVERSITY YOUR CROPS.

Kem- corn, Spanish peanuts, Whip
poorwnI peas and arIichokes. Hogs
will treat of each in a separate article.
Please look out for them. Coao1,
hogs. cattle and wheat are the onl,
crops that you can always sell
for cas1 at some price. Farmers must
have something that will bring money.
Ksh., peas or peanuts are plenoId
feed crops, worth many times more
than C "a.
Ksmr corn ia a non sacharine Afri
a cane. There are red and white
Kshr, milo maiza. Daoure corn, Jeru
salem corn, ell different species OF the
ssme general family Of corr For our
very dry climates my observations
and experiments are decidedly IN favor
of KaRr. It stands the drouth finely.
A few years ego, when We had hVr
months drouth, I saw al eXperIm- ntal
patch grow at least so or 90 bushels of
seed per acre and make st least tUur
tons of hne hay per acre. All &C. OK
are very fond of it, AND if cut up into
lengths of four or five incles, they will
eat it I'D clean. The bladts and sta Bs
stand green during the dryest seas"n
and will remain until frost & I'll
when il first up is a very sme'I
delicate. grass IKE plant, hRrd TO cut
tivate until i5 gets we'll started, ard Oy
that time may be cnoked out by gr@se
o. weeds H~nce, iG ID best TO prepare
the land AS for corn, and let 1t lie untIt
time for planting < h'-about the
same time as for cotton. When weed
or grass comes up, while small aud
tender h4rro ~ the ground and kill ou'
the young stuff This killing u a
crop of weeds Ia a great etep iO~ards
its stter cultivation. Sow in drills
about thrt Q and one halt feet apar'
cover lightly. When it fret comes up
it ia small and 10 )ks ike grass anO
grows eff slowly. Should grass or
weeds come 10 with it, while they are
very small they can be kill d out by a
small tooth harrow This will not but
the z fl and is q good cultivation for
It. Wu. the plants are three or four
inches high lt should be hoed out and
left one stalk in a hill about fifteen
inches apart. Cultivate az you YOU d
corn, with a heel sweep. K1mr chou d
never be lefE thick in the drill like
sugar cane It must be- thinnt d out,
as above directed, to produce GOOD
crops.
To due TINA the z fl viii throw out
and mature q GOOD head from the top.
IL the SEASONS continue good, IL Will
throw two more from the Ints of the
upper blades of fodder, thus often mak,
ing five or seven heads from one sGalk
exhibited In Bowie the past season q
single statk tina contained twenty
heads. all 10 states OF maturity. from
fully RIPE heads 60 mere embryo Dl0 M,
Fipeuing ten or twelve hee - Wnru
the fret heads are ripe u IF and save
as ordinary corn They can b thr' saed
like oats, which breaks about halt the
grains. or ru0oed out on rough. boards
by hand As soon as the Fl st heads
matur the stalk commencr g e. mature
the n K head; so il you do not War
to save seed, you need n It cut then
off L e. in the su inner, depenhIn.
upon the SEASON, when you Q they
cease 70 MAXI more head or begin G.
wilt, u tt DO Rn and stack WhIle greer
There % no trouble N saving T |
you have cuG fl the heads and wish !
feed them TO STOCK, n e Is sQlH
TO an ear at corn Thew shOuld q
stripp-o 81 pu cas, then che STOCK Ca
rnem with less W 4ste. Tn
grain, pound for pound, 10 fully fql'
as STOCK eco TO the ordinary corn. Er