Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-01-20
Edited by G. III. AFFORD

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D6~r Sir-I take pleasure in reply
ing toNour letter of inquiry.
The Spanish peanut seems to be the
most popular variety. This variety
will make profitable returns wherever
the cowpea will succeed. A c~alcareous
soil is preferable, but coed results
may be secured on almost any soil
that is we'll drained when fortified
with lime and acid phosphate.
The soil should be thoroughly pull
verified for several inches deep. 1t
is best to plant on a level where the
soil is well drained, loose, and will not
run together.
The White Spanish peanut may be
planted at my time after danger Of
frost is over until the 1st Of August.
The crop may b grown with some
other crop, as corn, or after some CROP
has been harvested.
The Arkansas experiment station
obtained the LARGEST yield per acre in
rows u inches apart and 4 inches
apart in the drill. However, he yield
in rows three ret apart and the dis
lance in the drI 10 inches was almost
ass large.
Smelling Peauts for planting is a
tedious task. he results at the Ar
kansas station ave 90 per cent germi-
nation from shlled peanuts, 81 per
cent from podsorOken In two, and Is
per cent from hole pods. h pods
broken in twoand the whole pods
were very slown spTOuting, and some
of the whole IDS were about five
weeks in appea ng above the ground.
The object o~cultivation is to keep
the ground freGrOm grass and weeds
and the surfaced the soil loose. Pre-
vent the growt of weeds and grass
and the formatn of a soil crust. AT
ter the first blowing, cultivation
should be shalLy. Do not cover the
blossoms with Il.
When the Spish peanut is grown
for hogs, the ts may be cut with a
mower and sad for hay before the
hogs are turn into the field. And
let me remar right here that the
Arkansas staff, after growing Span
ish peanuts fOIen years, said: LAS a
hog food, nOthi has eel found that
will more chety produce a gain in
weight equal tthat produced by the
Spanish peanu The Alabama sta
ton produced high as 600 pounds
of live weight hogs on one acre OF
Spanish peanut
Cattle, h~OrseEOats, sheep and Toul-
try, as we'll as'gs, are very fond Of
pcanutS, and tive on them. Cattle,
horses. mules, ITS, sheep and other
stock eat the vile plant and poultry
and hogs the IS.
The fact ~the5panish peanuts will
produce fairly Id crops on compare
lively poor laIwhen well fortified
and cultivated ould encourage us to
grow them as ubstitute for the lar
ger part Of thorn and hays usually
fed to all kinds stock.
We are tOln a bulletin issued
from the Lou IA station that one
acre OF Spanishanuts grown on COM
paratively pootnd at Calhoun con-
tanned 1872 pOE Of nitrogen, worth
at commercial iliZers value at least
$40. The crop de two tons Of feed
stuffs richer food elements than
wheat bran. IN such feedstuffs
can be grown comparatively poor
land and graZer fed to stock with
out serious lOssfertilizing value and
the manure saDnd put on the land.
is there any exc for poor land and
The failure to " all kinds of live
stock? No cOu on earth can grow
such a crop i me other crop, as
corn, or after e other crop has
been harvested yet no country
grows less fOOtfs and no country
wears out mOred.
At the presehrket price for pea
nuts and peanhay. there is, of
course, a good it in growing pea
nuts for sale. wever, we are in
sore need of fe soil and plenty of
hogs, mules, rs. cattle, sheep.
goats, poultry ather stock, and let
us not worry 9Th market price
until the home ket is abundantly
supplied. The gng of peanuts on
every farm in sient quantities to
supply the hommand means rich
land and plenty t stock.
I have asked y. s. Department
of Agriculture nil you Farmers
Bulletin No. 35l Peanuts from
Washington. D.
When 1 can bservice 10 you, be
sure and let me
SINGER Aurs,
H. AFFORD.