Vegetables 
FOLLOW-UP CROPS ON VEGETABLE LANDS 
H. S. McLendon 
Mr, President, Ladies and Gentlemen : 
In looking over the proceedings of the 
State Horticultural Society for the past 
few years, under the head vegetables, I 
find so many things that have been cov¬ 
ered, that there does not seem to be 
much more to say on these lines, until I 
am in doubt as to what to try and say that 
will interest many. But I have decided 
to take what seems the most important 
changes we need. 
SUMMER CROPS 
What we mean by summer crops is 
some follow-up crop after vegetables. 
That is, instead of letting our lands lie 
idle after we are through with vegetable 
crops until the time to start another vege¬ 
table crop that we grow something more 
than grass and weeds. 
Now there are several things we wish 
to accomplish by this method: first, is 
more money during the season; second, 
to increase the producing power of our 
lands. 
During the season that we are growing 
vegetables on the land there is usually 
applied from one to six tons of fertilizers, 
and where we do not have any irrigation 
and happen to get a dry spring, as we do 
so often, a great deal of this fertilizer 
will be left in the soil unused. 
Does it not look reasonable to think 
we might have a little growing power 
left from this amount if we were to get 
busy and start some crop immediately 
after the celery was harvested ? 
MORE MONEY THAT SEASON 
Now, for the first purpose of these 
crops—more money that season—we are 
going to have to grow some crop that 
we can turn into money. First among 
these will be corn, sorghum, velvet beans, 
peanuts, beggarweed, etc. Space will 
not permit me to mention all that can be 
grown, with a more or less success, de¬ 
pending upon the local conditions, you 
will have to decide which are best suited 
to your special purpose. 
It will depend upon how you harvest 
and sell these crops as to how much 
profit you get from them. Take the corn 
and sorghum, for instance. These should 
be put into a silo and fed to cattle right 
on the place. Sell the cattle and get your 
money for the corn through the profit 
from them. 
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