Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-10-21
Hogs, Peaches and peas.

man in Central Tennessee. 1t contains
so much good farming sense that IL.
method described may well be iol
lowed in other states,
Father and planted an orchard
OF 500 peach trees on thin land. Some
parts of the orchard We're so rolling
as to wash badly.
1--WE cultivated in corn TWO years
after the trees were set.
I'm April we prepared the field as
If for corn, then run deep furrow
every 20 feet going twice in each fur
row Next we drew line at right
angles at one end OF the field and
started each row from this line,
1.-THE trees were set 16 feet apart in
the row. The trees were medium eize
and as soon as they were set in The
rows / cut them back to stub about
foot tall
zone boy and two men set the SOC
trees in three days The boy carried
the trees and handed them, one at a
time, to one of the men, who held II
in place, while the other, with "a broad
wedding hoe, pulled the loose, mellow
SOIL in on the roots The man VINO
held the tree in position 1irmed the
soil carefully around the tree.
This planting OF the trees was done
about April 90 Between the 9Th and
10th of May the field was, planted TO
corn. The rows OF corn were four
feet apart, making four rows between
each two rows of trees There was
no corn planted in the rows of tress;
thus a space OF eight feet was left for
each row of trees.
THE second season we planted the
corn a little farther from the row o.
trees to give them more air and sun
shine.
"By the time the trees reached their
second years growth some OF the
limbs nearly touched in the row. The
third season there was no crop grown
in the orchard, but cultivation went
on just the same.
1.-THE third season there were few
peaches, as fine specimens as you
would care to see, and fine crop OF
buds was set for the fourth years
yield of fruit.
The fourth and fifth seasons there
were fine crops OF peaches, but on the
sixth there was an entire failure.
After this we got about three crops
OF fruit out of about five years.
1--WE planted part of the orchard to
COW peas and part. TO red clover
each making heavy crop
I'VE cut the clover for hay and
when the COW peas were getting pretty
well ripe we turned in the fattening
hogs, which we had just begun to
feed for the market.
There was heavy crop OF peaches
that year all over the country, and
they were SO cheap that they did not
taste good. We sold them for what
we could at the orchard, for 20 cents
per bushel
Here is where the hogs came IN.
we DOIlC6u ludt Tic hO6o NO"AN Sese
COW peas for while, then would eat
of the fallen peaches.
1--WE shook all OF the small and
great many Of the nicer ones to the
hogs.
81 have never seen hogs thrive bet
ter and get fat quicker than they dld
on COW peas, peaches and a little OLD
corn, about two ears per each hog per
day.
1--WE have followed this up for years
and on land that was very thin wnen
we planted to peaches 1t is now
growing good corn, tobacco, potatoes
and wheat.
THE whole amount OF manure made
by the hogs, the stems and roots~of the
COW peas were plowed under each
year, supplying the soil with fine lot
of humus.
PLANT peaches, COW peas and req
clover if you would fatten your hogs
and build up your land.
A letter on the subject Of fiction.
written by the veteran George Mere.
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