The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1902-08-01
Food Crops for
Late Planting.
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repeatedly vi SCu. IL SS> III w
sirable to repeat the same advice
in order to answer the question
as to what is the best use to make
of land on which the corn crop
has failed so com pletely as to be
useful only when cut and saved
as forage.
Unfortunately this is the con-
6i,ion of d large proportion of the
early corn in the central and
doubtless in other parts Of the
State. Alabama has been pecu-
liarly unfortunate as compared
with other States, in that the
heavy rains of week or two age
which brought relief to Texas,
making possible bumper crop
of cotton Though not of CORN in
that State, passed around us on
the west and around us on the
east, irving rains as far east as
the M ssissippi River, as far
south as Tennessee and IN the
South Atlantic Cotton States from
Georgia eastward.
The report on the condition of
the cotton crop issued by the
National Depar tment of Agricul-
ture about July l shove ed that the
condition of that crop, which is
, the one most resistent to drought,
! at least in the earlier half OF It's
growing period, to be very salts.
! factory. except in Texas and
! Alabama, Very heavy and very
general rains recently fell
throughout the cotton growing
portion of Texas and have doubt
less greatly changed for the bet
! ter, the rather low figure, -, re-
ported during the latter part of
June. Omittlng Texas, whose
cotton crop prospects have so
improved since the reports were
mailed, Ala bama stood then at the
loot of the list. 81 representing
the average condition of our cot
ton during the latter part of June.
This is not so low as was eX-
pected, and it is certainly consid-
cradle higher than the average
condition in the central part of
State.
Worse still the weather since
The reports we're sent in has been
such up to the date of this writ
ng July ~ as to cause decline
in the condition of cotton.
In short, with fair season in
all States, from now until fall, the
present indications suggest the
possibility of d large cotton crop
for the country aud of either a
poor or medium one for Ala bama.
While the dry weather has hurt
cotton IN this State, the real ca
lamlty, which it has already
brought, has been the failure of
corn, except that planted late.
The failure OF corn in Ala oama
Ia catastrophe in which Texas
mas already shared, to some
what lesser EXTENT, makes it
doubly important that food crops
be planted on all suitable areas
when rain falls.
Those who are fortunate
enough 10 be able to obtain the
seed of Mexican June corn can
safely continue to plant 1t up to
the latter part of July. If it fails
10 mature grain it can be we'll
utilized as green food for hogs
and work teams in the early fall.
1t requires ample distance.
Cowpeas can be planted for
hay during the whole of July ana
the earlier varieties NAV even
make seed from july planting.
If any Spanish peanuts can lie
had and put into moist ground
by the middle Of July the V will
make hog food unless frost should
be very early. 1t is getting late
for sweet potatoes, but the scar
city OF food crops makes it advis-
able that the setting of potatoes
be continued even later than
usual into July, provided rain