The eatable part of the cassava is the root, which grows from 3 to 5 feet long and from 3 to 4 inches in diameter. The appearance of a broken root is enticing, resembling a huge pink radish. When eaten raw, they have a peculiar nutty flavor. Cassava is used here in all kinds of pastry, in a grated state mixed to stiffen cakes, puddings, custards ; mixed with equal proportion of cornmeal and made into fritters it has the flavor of fried oysters. The stalk attains to the size of a small tree or large bush. We cut the stalks in pieces 4 inches long and set out on wide rows 6 feet apart and set 4 feet apart on the row. The bush is an ornament to any garden.

For feed for cattle, hogs, sheep and poultry it is very fine. Hogs will quit corn for it and thrive and fatten very fast. Milch cows fed on it give a richer flow of milk than from any other food.

The roots or tubers will not keep a week in open air. We dig them as we want them. The roots keep all winter here in the ground and we turn our hogs on them in the fall, and by January they are fat. This plant is now attracting a great deal of attention here in the South. Every one who has seen or tasted the cassava is going to plant a patch of it this year. It is planted from the first until the last of April, and then it can be multiplied again by pulling up the suckers and cutting them in pieces about 5 inches long and setting perpendicularly in the ground. One must not expect as large and as well developed tubers if planted after April. Late planting is mostly resorted to in order to multiply the plants fast, to make stalks large enough to put away for next year's planting. The stalks are kept over winter by first selecting a dry place or knoll where the water does not stand. A layer of stalks and a layer of sand are placed on top of one another until a rather steep bank is made, and then we place a shed over that to keep off the rain.

It needs a certain amount of dampness, but not too much.

I candidly believe that there is no other single article of food on the face of the globe that will go further toward sustaining animal life than the cassava, and there is nothing of the root crops that will outyield it. - J. L. Normand, Louisiana.

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I am fully persuaded that no other single article of food on the face of the earth would go so tar toward sustaining animal lite as the cassava root. There is an agreeable living in it for more animals of both the higher and lower orders than in anything else in existence. No one need lack for food where there is a good cassava crop. The Spaniards term it " The Life of Man," so Uncle John Parker stated, and he was associated with them much in the stock business. If they had added, "And all other Animals," it would not have been extravagant. I believe that everything we have ever offered it to on our place will eat it. I cannot say for certain that we have ever offered it to the dogs, but I am of the opinion that if you would fry fritters of it and spread on good butter, that they, too, would eat it.

Now there is no doubt in my mind but that thirty tons of cassava root per acre can be produced. When I think of the tapioca, glucose and starch there is in it, and how abundantly it can be turned into bacon and lard, milk and butter, mutton and beef, and that at least one-third of our horse feed, in the line of grain, can be saved by it, I feel confident that it will pay better than any other plant in the world. - S. W. Carson.