Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1914-05-02

In wet soil the roots grow near the
surface and are left without water
supply during drought.
and hogs during the winter season.
This small area of land devoted to
roots, should be located within rea-
sonable distance of the farm buildings,
if possible; in general deep, rich
loan soil is desirable and liberal sup
plies of barnyard manure will always
produce a marked response in the
crop The acre lots at the College are
handled in the following manner, viz. :
After the ground has been prepared
in the early spring by deep blowing
and thorough cultivation, it is marked
off into rows of the desired width with
an ordinary hand garden marker; the
seed is then sown by the use of hand
garden drill. An acre can be marked
and sown in this way by one man in
from five to six hours, depending on
roots for stock, the rows should not
be closer than twenty-four inches to
permit of as much horse cultivation
as possible. Machinery might be
used in planting larger areas. As
SOOil DIS Tie TOOlS appear dDONC IilC
ground, so that the line of the row
can be followed, they should be hoed
at once with hand wheel hoe, per-
hitting the blades to run up close
against the plants. With the excep-
ton of the thinning, and perhaps one
wedding of the row, the balance of
the work can generally be done by
horse cultivation. In harvesting tur-
- ho
ped readily with a sharp hoe while
still in the ground, and the roots tip
ped out of the ground with pillow in
the following manner: Select a plow
with narrow share, nine-inch pre-
ferred, remove the coulter or joiner,
and set the draft over to one side so
that the pillow will cut V shaped
furrow. Then with one man to drive,
the second man can so hold his pillow
as to trim off the tap roots and over
turn the turnips without burying
them deeply If buried dragging with
harrow will expose them again, but
this is seldom necessary if the work is
well done. In harvesting the short,
! thick bodied mangolds, such as the
| Golden Tankard, we uproot them by
digging an inverted harrow both
ways across the piece and the tops are
twisted off by hand when picked up
for loading on the wagon. The ex-
tremely long crooked varieties cannot
be harvested in this way without
more or less of them being broken
they are much heavier yielders than
the short, thick shaped varieties. For
stock purposes we top both carrots
and sugar beets with the hoe and in
the absence of beet litter. remove
them by cutting a furrow along side
each row, with narrow pillow having
the coulter removed and run so close
to the row as to leave one side of the
roots exposed. The carrot is difficult
to raise requiring so much tedious
hand labor in the thinning to -four
inches in the row, and as they grow
slowly at first weeds are apt to get
the start. We grow but few rows
of these for horse feed. The secret OF
success in storing roots consists ir
keeping them in the lowest possible
temperature without freezing.
Roots for the Horse.
For this purpose the carrot seems
best suited to the taste and answers
better than any other. During the
winter season, when work horses are
non-producers, there are generally
two extremes in the treatment which
they receive. The man who is fond oil
his horses is apt to feed them the best
NOW of hay and the best bin of oats al
this season; the Indifferent man, or
the other hand, turns them loose Il
the straw stack. Idle work horses car