The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-07
Cassava, How to Plant and to Ferti-
LIE for 1t,

Cassava will grow and make something
on the poorest land, which cannot be said
of many things, says a writer in the Times
Union. Yet, like other crops. there is no
profit in so growing it. To show not what
may be done, but what actually is done, I
will give some details of the methods of
Mr. Blanchard of Altamonte Springs.
He raises from twelve to fifteen tons of
roots per acre. not in a little patch the
size of table, but in three or four acre
fields.
In order that you may see how this is
sone, l will begin at his stables: His
TNWs are in two rows of stalls, back to
back, so that one gutter serves to catch
the droppings from both rows. These gut
tefs ale filled with dry muck from a drain
ca pond nearby. When the muck be-
comes well saturated it is wheeled to a
covered shed. A somewhat similar provis-
ION IN the horse stable secures the liquids
ana the volatile gases.
ADJOINING are covered hog pens into
Whlch the manure and litter go, and his
Hoss are fed on cassava stalks. This may
seem an astonishing yarn, but it is fact
NGt they live and grow on stalks alone.
through this stable so sensibly man
4oIhIuI oil this so skillfully and scienti-
+Ddly managed manure, without loss or
waste goes into the hill; on the surface
eoeS Two hundred pounds of potash per
"'ie' ana the crop is what l have al
ready told YOU.
as IS the case always with such
eHoushlIul men, Mr.. Blanchard's methods
,,a,.. ,esults improve each year and he is
lNi'is an increasingly greater use of
t ,o Formerly he fed shorts and cot
~" eeed meal in addition to cassava, now
- COWS get one quart of meal only. and
'.C ration of roots.
=, ne subject of stock and the feeds for
Is 50 fascinating that / might run on
~, whole page when it was really my
bog. ",ion 10 write only about cassava and
0" 10 grow it. We don't all have COWS
" muck beds, either, more's the pitv. Still
Ia ,.I d'se cassaNa to eat ourselves and
Co.., I'D the factory; i'm fact here is
fl, VI eating the cake end having it, too
mn 'o seml-solid waste of the factory
, highly valuable reed, and it is
v.iI req fresh and sweet to those who
fs.5 puy. The purchaser i'm fact, gets
&C oetter than the whole root as the
Oh starch is removed.
~ medium rich dry soil is best suited
''sdVa. Such d. a soil fortified
a,r''. 'SNeS' or some form of potash, always
eI'N on the surface. win surely make
has - moreover, the potash thus applied
ron,l most decided effect in causing the
Is nv, 10 sroW near the surface, so that it
elae,., iouoie 10 dig them-in fact, you can
are tIs pun them out even when they
t. ease. 'o'i iee' ioiis' as ~ ol'ei
us.5 H'thg, a long piece must never be
IS e,a piece of stalk three inches long
20 ~ ana beyond that it is not wise to
end 'llen find men who plant the canes
saw, end like sugar cane, and say cas-
No il fraud, it don't produce anything
ING IT, YOU left twenty stalks in a hill.
rsI ' sI by four feet pieces should be drop-
rolled covered like potatoes, the ground
tine r ~ packed, and then, in about the
shoo. "Hi'e potatoes would appear. your
isbor vi cassava will be seen. and your
dou9 ,treaiter will consist in keeping
sbla 7'7Ss by the shallowest culture pos