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Show HAMUS ON DRY FARM Native of Syria, and Delights in Hot, Dry Weather. it la Not Affected by Hot Wlnda, as I Corn and Other Grains, and Ma-I Ma-I turei in Six to Eight Weeks From Planting. ! j Iu the summer of 1'jno I filed on a I iaim on which 1 am living today, and I since then I have been studying the rllmato and the soil of this country, arltes K. Hizk of Stanley county.' South Dakota, In tho Orange Judd J firmer. The more 1 studied the bet-i bet-i '.er 1 felt, because It put me In mind it the place where 1 was born and raised, on the farm of Jim Janeen Kl-llakka, Kl-llakka, about ?,', miles from Damascus, 3yila. In that section many good .Tops are raised without a drop of uimnier rain. So not long after setting set-ting hero I sent to the old country nd got about three pounds of hamus. This Is a pea that we always depend-sd depend-sd upon for summer crop, and a table vegetable. I!y the way. I must tell what ha-tius ha-tius Is like, and for what and how t Is used This plant Is a member of he pea family and used practically he same way for cooking, and It may ilso be roust i and stilted or sugared s peanuts In addition It Is line r I for horses and hogs, and. In fact, for all kinds of live stook. Iist spring ihout planting time 1 showed the l'e:i to my neighbor nnd gave him a iinall package of Hie seed and usked dim to try It on his place. The bal-ince bal-ince of the Reed 1 planted myself. The tlrst lot I seeded May IT. HMO. I I lanted two rows on a well worked ecd bed, plip-ltig the seed IS indies ipart in row with the name distance 'j"tween. The other portion of the leeil I planted on new breaking: however, how-ever, this was also wtll prepared. This iced was planted the first week of lime. P.oth seeding came up about i:e same time, as It was cold the latter lat-ter part of May, ami the seed did not terminate until the weather became ftiirm. After spring really opened it lid not take long f(.r the plants to 'ouio up, probably from five to eight lays. After hamiiH was planted we had no -nln worth mentioning; in fact, we had only a light shower about June J'l. w hich w as not even enough to set-le set-le the dust, and that was the first and last I received after planting tHe crop until after harvest. The plants did splendidly and grew as fast a Russian Rus-sian thistles. The stalks grow much like the thistle, about 12 to 13 Inches bigh and about the same In diameter, ft blossoms and produces pods which :ontain one of the peas, ordinarily inly one. The aeeds are a trifle larger larg-er than the common garden pea, and Save a cream-colored hull. It seems strange that natural salt seciimulates en the plant while green, and yet It Is a fact, and when this Is washed out by rain It delays growth. 1'he drier the season and the hoter he weather the better tho plant seems to thrive. It Is not affected by hot winds, as corn and other grains, i nd matures from six to eight weeks from planting, depending largely upon the season. I harvested mine while freen last Summer for table use on July 5. On August 7 we had a good rain here, and after that the plants :nme up and made more growth the same as before, but produced little seed. Regarding the yield per acre of this :rop, I might add that I found from 50 to 160 pods on a plant, and every pod contained one and sometimes two seeds. In my estimation hamus will yield as much as 40 bushels per acre. My neighbor whom I supplied a small quantity of seed was well pleased, and he Intends to grow about 10 acres this season. Many other farmers here after seeing the plant determined to give It a trial, and I ecured seed for them. In all I have made three Importations, and shall grow about 290 acres. I believe that at least 200 to 500 acres will be planted In our vicinity. Now aa to the place that hamus will fill In this country. I believe It will be good thing for the arid and seml-arld west |
