Gleanings in bee culture . ns. No. 3 shows our method of growing sprouted oats. The bed originally hadfive rows of oats, such as you see. Justbefore the picture was taken we pulled andfed to the chickens every other row andplanted potatoes in their stead. The pota-toes are not yet up; but when they are, weshall pull the remaining oats and cultivateand hoe the potatoes. Our chickens havelearned to devour eagerly oats a foot is an easy matter to pull them, root andall, out of the soft sandy soil. Everything has been described in pictureNo. 4, except the great cassava roots. Imight say, h
Gleanings in bee culture . ns. No. 3 shows our method of growing sprouted oats. The bed originally hadfive rows of oats, such as you see. Justbefore the picture was taken we pulled andfed to the chickens every other row andplanted potatoes in their stead. The pota-toes are not yet up; but when they are, weshall pull the remaining oats and cultivateand hoe the potatoes. Our chickens havelearned to devour eagerly oats a foot is an easy matter to pull them, root andall, out of the soft sandy soil. Everything has been described in pictureNo. 4, except the great cassava roots. Imight say, however, that one of the dash-eens in the little basket in the foregroundweighed over 4 lbs., and that the Red BlissTriumph potatoes shown are two of the 25-ct. half-peck baskets set in a half-bushelbasket. Now for the cassava: Just about two years ago we set out(4x4 feet) some sprouted cuttings in oneof the beds on our poorest sandy ground,giving them a very little fertilizer. Theweeds were kept out until the cuttings were. Burbank Giant rhubarb with beets and carrots on the right. 252 GLEANIKGS IN BEE CULTURE well slarted, and al-most no cultivation(and no fertilizer)since. When Wesleydug up those threeroots I was astonish-ed. The three wereabout all I wanted tocarry; but I careless-ly neglected to weighthem.* They are goodnourishing food forman or animals; andas we have more onthat one bed (perhaps100 feet long) thanthe chickens can everuse, I have been seri-ously considering somepigs to utilize thecrop. They can stay in the ground winter and summer untilyou are ready to feed them. In our softsandy soil it is but a minutes work toreach down and yank out a root likethose shown above. A drouth doesnt seemto hurt them at all. You may recall I havealready printed extracts from a Govern-ment bulletin in regard to cassava for pigs,poultry, and other farm stock. Near the basket of dasheens you willnotice a small bundle of the bleached dash-een shoots that we call dasheen aspara-gus.
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