The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1911-07-13

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CLUBBING COTTON BEARS WITH RUT-
APaGA AND YELLOW ABERDEEN
TURNIPs.
There is not an animal on the farm
but that is fond of turnips during
winter and spring; just at the time
when there is scarcity of other sue
culent food. From North Carolina
south these winter turnips Will keep
well left in the field all winter. On.
account of the dry fall three years
ago our turnips did not come up un-
til October and did their best grow
ing in the following January. In
fact, the crop was the smallest lhave
ever seen until good rains began to
fall about the last of November. To
keep well the late paintings are usu-
ally the best and sweetest. A good
plan is to plant some 2t intervals
from first of August until first Of
September. Sometimes middle of
July paintings succeed well but are
generally hollow-crown ana pithy.
Safest plan is to house or bank part
of the crop and feed out of the field
during good weather and have the
stored crop for convenience during
bad weather. Boiled with corn, tur-
<nips and tops make good food for
hogs; in the spring hogs will eat
them raw; so will poultry. | usually
throw out a few whole turnips In
poultry yards and hog lots all along
the winter and spring months, but
for COWS and horses cut them with a
square bill shovel.
FIXING THE GROUND FOR TURNIPs.
About nine-tenths of failures in
growing turnip crops come from i'm
proper preparation before planting.
To begin with, if the land for tur-
nips is not already rich and deep soil,
it is absolutely necessary to make it
rich with heavy dressing of stock
manure and turned under as deep as
possible. This deep turning, harrow
ing and rolling or smoothing down
with heavy smoother is of first i'm
portance in stubble land or where
coarse manure has been spread over
the land before ploughing. If the
Lana intended for turnips is already
rissa> and alluvial, from four to eight
hundred pounds of high-grade cot
ton seed meal and acid fertilizer
should be disked broadcast after land
has been prepared as described above.
1t also pays to disk in from four to
six hundred pounds to acre Of high
grade acid phosphate on lands where
stock manure has been used. This
acid phosphate should contain high
per cent of potash or wood ashes.
This preparation and manuring the
land should be done at least two or
three weeks before planting the seed
and the laid hattSwsd and rolled or
smoothed at least once every week.
This frequent cultivation kills the
weed and grass seed and stores
moisture.
PLANTING THE SEED AND CULTIvA-
TION.
Like most crops the best cultiva-
ton of the turnip crop can be done
before the seed goes into the ground.
With proper preparation and fire.
|ouent narrowing and rolling or
smoothing the land before planting,
with the use of good seed, a good
stand is assured.
Most any plan of putting in the
seed will get good stand in rainy
weather, but to insure a god stand
in dry weather, mark off rows 20 to
"a inches from Il to ? inches deep,
drill in LIBERAL amount of seed but
not too thick, cover seed by running
a wheelbarrow or other wheel over
them just far enough on one side OF
bottom of furrow to crush IN sumo
~ dirt on the seed. The object for