Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-10-31


fve-acre tracts. This shows a convenient
method of subdivision which gives access
to all the fields without wasting much
land in roads. Length of lines given In
rods.
center on one side, and it is supposed
that a public road passes this side
of the tract.
OF these five acres half an acre Is
utilized for the house and yard and
the barn and barn lot This space is
ample for what we have in view. One
half acre is devoted to garden, one
and one-half acres to orchard and the
remaining two acres for a paddock
into which to turn the stock for exer-
else.
BY judicious management these two
acres can also Be made to furnish
some pasture and some soiling crops.
The other seven fire-acre tracts are
to be devoted to a seven-year rota-
ton. When this rotation is in full
swing the crops on the farm for
given year will be as follows: Field A.
potatoes; field B, three acres OF cab
bage and two acres of onions; field C.,
corn; field d, cowpeas; field E, corn;
field F, clover; field G, clover.
The next year each of these crops
would move to another field as fol-
lows: The potatoes would go to field
G., which was in clover the year be
fore. The cabbage and onions next
year would go to field B. The corn on
field c would go the next year to field
B. Cowpeas in field d would go the
next year to field C. The corn in field
E would go to D, while E would be
sown in clover and F remain in clover.
The next year each crop would move
to another field in the same manner
so that each year potatoes are sown
after second year clover, cabbage and
konions are planted after potatoes, etc
The potatoes, cabbage and onions on
this farm would form the market
crops. The two fields of corn, the
field Of cowpeas and the first years
seeding of clover would furnish twenty
acres of forage for the live stock
while the second year clover would
furnish pasture for the live stock dur
ing the summer.
In each of the two corn fields some
winter grain, such as wheat or rye
could be sown early in August at the
time when the corn is laid by, tina
is, when cultivation of the corr
ceases. This wheat would furnish fal
and winter pasture for the live stock
In the corn field which is to be fol
lowed by clover the wheat would b.
turned under very early in the sprinl
in preparation for sowing the clover
In the corn field which is to be fol
lowed by cowpeas the wheat could re
main until the second year clover fell
is ready to turn stock on, at whicl
time it might be plowed up and sow
to cowpeas We thus have pastur
during the whole year in section
where the seasons permit winter pas
turing.
In states that are too far north TO
the cowpeas, soy beans may be sui
stituted for them, and In regions to
far north for soy beans. oats can b
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me rotation remaining the same. Con
mercial fertilizers would be require
for the potatoes. cabbage and onions
There is plenty Of good literatur
published by the department of agr
culture and by a good many of tn
state experiment stations relative
the cultivation and fertilization of d
tatoes, cabbage and onions, and II
reader is referred to this literature fC
further information concerning tn
growing of these crops.
The above cropping system in add
: ton to the three money crops woul
furnish forage and pasture for abo'
six head Of stock. Two work hors
would be sufficient to do the work
the farm. This will permit keepir
four dairy cows.
One fact to which ! would call
tention is that in the marketing of ?
: tatoes, cabbage and onions II 10 n
necessary for the farmer to run
3 market every day for several weel
3 as would be the case with most 9th
> kinds Of truck crops. especially stra
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