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148 FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA
corn, the rest in pasture for her cow. Corn is in 4^/2 foot rows;
have velvet beans in one place with sand peanuts in the middles,
on the rest there are red peanuts, peas, and more peas. Corn
looks fine, only it is too far apart for my fancy. Next time it is
in corn it will be closer; the peas will do that for me. Having
only one cow I have no manure to spare for it; want all I can
get from cow, chickens and sow to put on garden and orchard.
Hope to have some Twiggs county oranges (citranges) next
year; have nineteen trees of them.
"Sudan grass is fine feed, but how it does punish the land. My
fattening hogs and sow certainly do like it. At present they
nearly live on the falls from the orchard, refuse from canning, etc.
"I have a small piece of ground in sweet potatoes; if good tops
are any sign of good roots, will certainly have a crop. Don't
want anything better than peas to bring up this land. Put them
everywhere, even for a cover crop for a few weeks in the garden.
They seem to be about the only things that will stand the Georgia
sun. My flower garden is not a source of profit, but it certainly
is beautiful to look at. One day in spring I counted seventeen
colors in it. We always have a few flowers, even in our coldest
weather the little sweet alyssttm is blooming."
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