. The modern guide for fruit and truck shippers and poultry raisers in the southern states; . rrots. CULTIVATION. Culiivation should be done with the hoe and hand-cultivators betweenthe rows. Like all other vegetables, carrots appreciate liberal and oftencultivation. HARVESTING. After the carrots have attained the size of a finger or a little larger,they should be pulled up and tied in bunches, each bimch containing adozen carrots and shipped in bushel crates, hampers or barrels by express; Cassava. 59 if shipped in barrels, carrots must be well iced with cracked ice in demand for c
. The modern guide for fruit and truck shippers and poultry raisers in the southern states; . rrots. CULTIVATION. Culiivation should be done with the hoe and hand-cultivators betweenthe rows. Like all other vegetables, carrots appreciate liberal and oftencultivation. HARVESTING. After the carrots have attained the size of a finger or a little larger,they should be pulled up and tied in bunches, each bimch containing adozen carrots and shipped in bushel crates, hampers or barrels by express; Cassava. 59 if shipped in barrels, carrots must be well iced with cracked ice in demand for carrots is limited and we do not advise to grow or shipthem in any large quantities, yet as a small crop they have proven veryprofitable. CASSAVA. Cassava is a most valuable crop as a Southern forage crop and foodfor man and stock. Five tons of cassava roots may be grown on an acreof land that would not produce 20 bushels of corn. Cassava, when dried,will give 700 pounds to the ton; 5 tons will produce 3,500 pounds driedcassava gathered from one acre. In its dry state cassava will keep for. PASSAVA years; in the green state it is fed to cattle, hogs and poultry. Tapioca ismade from cassava; therefore it is also used for human food in theshape of pudding, tasting similar to the sweet potato pudding. Fed tocows, it increases the milk and butter, and hogs may be fattened as quicklyand much cheaper on cassava as on corn. Boots have been produced sixfeet long and six inches in diameter, weighing 25 pounds. SOILS. Cassava may be planted on the poorest sandy land and no fertilizersare required. PLANTING. The stalks are planted like sugar cane in 4-inch lengths and the rootsare used for feed. It should be planted in February or March and har- CO The Growing of Cauliflower in the South. vested in August and September or late fall by simply plowing the rootsout. Every farmer should plant a patch; it beats peanuts, ehufas or anyroot crop. Cassava will yield 600 pounds of pure starch to the
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