The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-02-21

tangie OF cOWpea vines 1eit pelo"
the reach of the corn harvester.
| do not want to give the impress
sion that two silage corn crops a
year is practice. I'm merely point
ing out what can be done. The
truth is, the planters don't have to
push the land like that, for most OF
the land isn't used at all. But
the possibilities of the tWo-crop-a-
year region are well worth the con-
sideration of people in the high
priced-land, one-crOp-a-year country
With the greatest ease a crop OF
legume hay--crimson clover or Vetch
and small grain-can precede a crop
of corn; coWpeas can grow in the
corn and be ploWed under for the
Vetch-grain combination. That stutfs
the beasts full OF good feed and the
ground full of humus. With the adj
dition OF raw phosphate Mr.. Council
finds the land rapidly Increasing in
fertility under such treatment.
I Whereas the clover Of the north
! dies out in a hurry, the lespedeza
of the south reseeds itself and makes
from two to three tons of hay on
good land. Lespedeza has a kind OF
wiry nature that makes it dry and
cure far more easily than the pulpy,
| spongelike red clovers Of the north,
which drop much of their foliage II
| they stand a few days too long.
| If other stock food is needed it is
concentrate rich in protein. This
demand is met by cottonseed meal,
which gives the most perfect
dovetailing of factors. The raw ma
tefial doesn't have to be shipped a
thousand CT fifteen hundred miles,
to be concentrated after freight is
| paid. It is the product of the vicln-
ity reduced to its most concentrated
Iform-meat-and then sent to the
markets.
| Mr.. Connell is also enthusiastic on
pigs. He has been taking a little
advice here from the Baton Rouge
experiment station and from his
four hundred and fifty acres sells
| one hundred and fifty to two hun
dred porkers a year weighing about
one hundred and seventy-five pounds
each. He says people in the north
are heap too fond of working
themselves and a heap too fussy
about their pigs. "Who wants to
wait on pig like he is a baby?"
Mr.. Council asks. He makes his
pigs work for their living and he
thinks the practice may have some
beneficial moral Influence on them.
Part of his oat land is ploWed in
June or July, and about ten acres
of sweet potatoes and ten acres Of
peanuts are planted. Along in Oc-
tober both are ripe, and the hogs are
called On to perform their part,
which is to dig and eat. The pigs
eat the sweet potatoes-tops, roots
and all. The potato with it's starch
is a perfect substitute for corn; and
the peanut-Which is about the rich
est thing nature Has pred Ru2eeeedd--is
high in both fat AM protein. Be-
tween them these two pig-harvested
crops make just about perfectly
balanced ration and a perfect pig
for market, not for breeding. After
the pig is all through, the land is
soWn to lespedeza for next years
hay crop.
The Louisiana Experiment Station
insists that an acre of peanuts and
an acre of sweet potatoes will make
more pork than two acres of corn on
the same soil. 1t is the opinion of
the experts that the production of
the three crops up to harvest time
is about equally laborious, while the
peanut, being a legume, does much
better than corn on poor land, which