138 Truck Growing in the South. 



HOW WE EAISED A CROP OF TUHNIPS. 

 By J. B. HuNNicuTT. 



Some years ago when we were just beginning to learn 

 to, farm better we had a rather singular experience. 

 Eleven weeks of drouth had cut off the corn crop. How 

 we should manage to farm next year without this corn was 

 a serious question. We decided to ti-y an experiment. 

 We did not believe in buying corn on credit. No man 

 can farm successfully that way. It was too late to plant 

 com. We had not learned to use many of the substitutes 

 now used for corn, so we tried turnips. 



We had never seen turnips grown for this purpose. B\it 

 we had five acres of very thin land, the top of the hill some- 

 what washed. Erom this we had cut a crop of grain. We 

 took our big plows and broke this twelve to thirteen inches 

 deep. The clay was very dry and the sub-soiling very 

 hard to do. We then harrowed and plowed and harrowed 

 again and again. We do not know how many times we 

 went over; but we made the soil so fine and so deep that 

 the plow hands took off their shoes and put them in the 

 fence corner because they sank over the shoe tops. 



HOW MANURED AND PLANTED. 



We used stable and lot manures broadcast and har- 

 rowed in. Then we put fertilizers in the drills as we 

 bedded. We harrowed the tops of these beds until it was 

 firne. We never saw so much dust. The horses and 

 bands were covered with it. Then we opened the small 



