Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-02


thirty inches apart. Cultivation when
they first come out of the ground may
be done with the weeder. little
later a one or two-horse cultivator
can be used about once a week. The
vines will soon spread across the row
rendering further cultivation unneces-
sary. About one peck of beans will De
sufficient to plant an acre. This crop
may be planted any time until the mid
die of June. 1t can be seeded as soon
as the ground is warm enough to in
sure the rapid termination of corn.
There are a large number of varieties
on the market which mature in from
115 to $50 days The Mammoth yell
low is a standard late-maturing va
riety. 1t is by all odds the most
satisfactory of those which we have
tried up to this time. 1t will not ma
ture is less than $50 days. 1t is
good yielder, however, and we'll adapted
for growth in the southeast. If plant
ed in succession it will answer the
same purpose as will be obtained from
planting early and late-maturing va
rieties. If you have not experimental
with this crop for pork production,
plant a small area in 1918. Save
enough seed for next year. 1t is one
of the most valuable and promising of
the leguminOuS crops adapted for
growth on the clay lands of the Pied
mont area. 1t is bound to become a
dominant factor in the production of
cheap pork throughout this great sec
ton of the country.
In the coastal plains area the peanut
should be utilized for hog grazing. 1t
can be grown on the type of soil men,
toned more economically and with less
expenditure of labor than any other
ha
ton. The labor situation makes its
cultivation extremely desirable at the
present time. Whether the crop is
grown extensively with the purpose IN
view of selling to the oil mills for
crushing or on a limited scale by the
tenant farmer a certain area should be
preserved in any event and used to
finish off a bunch OF hogs. They will
virtually harvest the crop and feed
themselves at the same time. The pea
nut, of course, makes a rather soft, oily
pork, though the flavor is excellent,
and on that account hogs finished on
peanuts should be fed on corn for two
weeks or a little longer before send
ing to slaughter. This crop is so well
adapted for light sandy lands that lit
must be regarded as the most profitable
grazing crop for fattening hogs in all
that great territory IN which 1T can be
cultivated 10 SuCn advantage Dy reason
Of favorable soil and climatic condi-
tons. Like the soy bean, the peanut
does not do well on heavy soils or those
which are not well drained. This crop
will produce an average of about 400
pounds of pork per acre. An acre will
ordinarily maintain about four hogs.
For finishing hogs in August and Sep
TENDER the Spanish or valencia peanut
should be planted. For later grazing
the running varieties will likely prove
the more satisfactory. They also make
a greater yield and will remain in the
ground for a longer period of time
without sprouting. If successive plant
ings are made grazing may be furnished
from August until Christmas. The run
ming varieties require thirty days long
err to mature than the Spanish. The
latter natures in about 120 days or
four m onths. The Spanish varieties
should be planted six to eight inches
apart in thirty-inch rows, and bushel
of seed in the hull or eight to ten
quarts of shelled nuts will plant an
acre. The running peanuts should be
planted eight to twelve inches apart
in three and a half-foot rows, and two
bushels of seed in the hulls or ten TO
twelve quarts will plant an acre. rms
crop may be planted with corn either
in the row or between the rows. If eV-
ery farmer in the southeast plants a
rational area to soy beans and pea
nuts this year. there rs no reason why
we should not produce the large num-
her of hogs the government has asked
us to raise at a very reasonable COST