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Mangel-wurzels N. M. Smith, Fayette, Mis*. Editor Gazette: Feeling sure that it will be of interest, as well as of benefit, to many of your subscribers who raise stock and plant feed crops, I want to give my experience with mangel-wurzels, or stock beets, a crop sadly neglected, and one, in my opinion, of the greatest feed crops ever discov ered in our country, barring none. Think of a crop that will make from l* to 11 tons per acre, and fatten stock quicker than corn or peas pound for pound,and still so very few growing them' \* M m! « M 4 4ka A M W AM 4 W • VM VVM J tMWM in the year from February to September IS and get a safe, sure crop. They will also keep like potatoes if pumped in 'fall, and as a silo product they stand without an equal. Owing to their great sweetness, every kind of stock love them and will fatten as though fed on sugar. About February IS I broke up about three-fourths of an acre, clay subsoil, near my lawn and let it remain till March <>, when I hauled from my barn three 2»horse wagon loads of manure fresh, which was spread broadcast over the land. On the 7th I broke it up into three and a half foot rows, opened them shallow with small plow, soaked seed in warm water 24 hours, planted them on the7tb, covered with harrow. When they were S inches high, I ran close to the plants with cultiva tor, let them stand lo days, and broke out middles with 1-borse plow running shallow. In 10 or 12 days 1 sharp molded with piUWf I VO , sowed sorghum in middle, and ran a Planet, Jr., cultivator twice up each middle, covering sor ghum and also spreading out middles to the beets. That is all the work I gave the beets, for 1 even failed to thin them out which should have been done, say, 4 to 5 inch es apart; but I was greedy, bad seen them grow thick in Califor nia, and 1 wanted all I could get oil the three-fourths acre. So far the past three weeks (it is now June 0) I have been feeding once a day 15 brood sows, 40 pigs, 5 calves, 10 gosts, 4 rams, £ boars, and 4 wage hands' mules; and still half the patch of beets left and a young crop of sorghum waist high. They will improve your milk in quantity and quality and fat ten your stock faster than any other crop on earth. My sows and pigs never looked as well as they do this season. Be sure to prepare the land well and soak the seed 24 hours in warm wa ter, then roll them in ashes be fore planting. However, the soaking is only to be sure to get the beets up well. I always soak every seed I plant, it mat ters not what it is. When the plants are up a few inches, thin them out to 4 or 5 inches apart •_ * J • t t J ___A iu iuc uim, 4uu ysju tiu i an' sured you will be amply paid (or your trouble and time. Always cut the roots up somewhat, as only horses, mules and hogs can eat the large roots without their being chopped up. They weigh from b to 8 pounds each. Tops and all are enjoyed by stock of every kind. Any favors I can render your readers on disease and treat ment of hogs, sheep, dogs, and horses, I will gladly do, if they will enclose stamp for reply. Comment by editor: It is generally supposed that June is the best month to plant mangel wurzels for a fall crop in the South, but it should be noted that Mr. Smith thinks they can be planted any time from Feb ruary to September 15. Possi bly he docs not expect them to mature before being fed when planted so late. Fresh manure is likely to give beets scab. Thoroughly rotted compost broadcasted and well worked in to the soil deep is preferable. If commercial fertilizers are used, they should be put in the drill at the bottom of a '••inch deep furrow, to promote the growth of a solid root down ward and to prevent the growth of lateral roots. If it is de sired to keep beets for win ter use lift them when se vere killing frosts occur and store them in barrels with sand between them or bank them in the field. The top should be cut below the bud, so growth will not take place and injure the quality of the roots. In thin ning them (and it will make a much larger yield) the small beets pulled out can be used at home, or often they can be sold to advantage if cleaned and bunched. Thi9 experience of Mr. Smith ought to be of much service to many. Who else can report good experience with some crop? Such letters help the general cause of good farm* ing very much. Rutabagas Kditok Gazkttk: I would like to know how and when to plant rutabagas, as J am just beginning in the truck business and have not had any experience in this line; Have always made cotton till this year. I live on a small place, just moved here last winter and have got in 1<> acres. It is level and I want to try truck for the fall. Tell me some varieties that will sell in a small town around which not much farming is going on. J. A. Bitkins, l.uccdalc, Miss. Answer by editor: No truck er, whether be has or has not ex perience, should continue to raise truck in the South without owning the Gardener's Manual that is advertised in this issue of the Gazette. It will save la bor many times and will give al most every time ju«t the infor mation a trucker wants, and a lot that he ou Kht to have that be j docs not think of now. In the garden notes by Mrs. Kverts in this issue much of the informa tion asked for will be found, but when one plants truck for a particular market he ought to tind out from merchants or oth ers what that market prefers in the kinds of truck to be grown. It pays to eater to local tastes or 1^ ■ v j • v v i* | «* m v v ••• v m v y irv 141 ui v easily got by supplying people with what they already like than by trying to educate them to eat something else. With such a vegetable as turnips, however, the lines arc not likly to be so clearly drawn as to varieties preferred. None the less, it is well to talk the matter over with local merchants or any body else who caa speak with authority for that market. No time should be lost in working the land for rutabagas, even if the seed are not put in at once. They should be planted in freahly stirred soil, of course. Make the rows two feet apart and place the seed 1? incliea OUR CLUBBING LIST. 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Standard Oil Co. flf 0.1. o. Pigs Choice pedigreed Ohio Improved Chester*, from finest Ohio herd Il«st lot of pigs I e»er u«. No infe rior ones shipped. L». L. Nevlaxd, Olio, Mis*. To Mvortistrs. -o Copy for advertisements should arrive in the office of the Gazkttk several days before the date of issue. Owing to a failure to do so, somebody desiring to ad vertise is disappointed every issue. Advertisers in the Gazkttk are get ting MORE BUSINESS THAN EVER BEFORE. HEREFORD BULLS Two two-year-old Hereford bulla for aale. Louisiana raised and immune to tick fever. S. K. McClendon. Baton Kouge, La.