The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1853-08-30
A Model Cotton Crop.


acres; 100 Of which was manured with guano,
and the balance with stable and barn yard ma
nure. The guano was applied at the rate of
200 lbs per acre, with the exception Of about
an half acre, on which it was applied at the
rate of 900 lbs per acre. Of the one hundred
aud sixty FIVE acres, one hundred and thirty are
| fresh land, and the balance old and much worn
Mr. Lacosle plants no corn, having made more
than enough last year for two years consump.
tion on his plantation. The l65 acres are d-
vided into a number of fields or cuts, by fences
and bitches.
In riding over the crop, each ofthe company
were requested to estimate, without consulta-
ton or interchange of opinion, the product Of
each field or cut and note down. This was
done, and afterwards these notes were compar-
ed and the following was the result: Total
average estimated product of the l65 acres
Ill 800 lbs, equal to 977.1.2 lbs. per acre
Among the gentlemen present was one of the
most successful cotton planters in this section
of country, and his was the highest estimate
made, it being at the rate of 200 lbs. for l35
acres, and 600 lbs. for thirty acres.
This is a large estimate for pine land but
| had Mr.. Lacostc planted his cotton five feet
apart, and applied 800 lbs of guano to the acre
with favorable fall, his yield must have large.
y exceed it. As it is, if the fall is favorable,
we have little doubt but the result will come up
to the estimate.
The great value of gnano rs IL manure for
cotton, is remarkably demonstrated in Mr. La.
costes crop. The sixty five acres which were
manured from the stable though nearly as tall
and us well filled rs the guauoed cotton, can
be distinguished from the latter as far as the
eye can distinguish the rows 1t is deficient
in the size Of the bolIs, but more particularly the
thriving, healthy green look, which character
zes the guanoed cotton. But the half acre to
which the guano was applied at the rate of3OO
lbs. per acre, more decidedly demonstrates the
value of that article as manure. This cotton
was nearly a third larger, general appearance
Of the weed far superior to the other cotton ad.
joining We observed many places in the
guanoed cotton where the ghtest difference in
the distribution of That article could be distinct
| ly seen. Indeed, so thoroughly satisfied has
Mr. Lacoste become, OF the value ufguanon
! tie production of cotton that he has already
purchased 25 tons 20 apply to his next crop
Mr. LacoSte has been planting for several
years, bat for the last three he has personally
attended to his plantation, dispensing with the
services of an oversccr, and he has in renarka-
! bic manner demonstrated the effect of OfinduStry
and perseverance A former owner of his
| plantation, who cultivated it for several years,
dubbed it, as he thought very, justly, "sorrow."
for which its present owner has substituted, as
we think with much propriety. the much more
| pleasing and expressive appclation "PerSever.
| Iiptil fI,n
| ting application had been made to the soil, ex.
celt the manures collected on the premises;
and with this alone the farm had been made
highly productive.
Here we would draw an inference for, the 1
consolation of those who are Iamenting over
their unproductive Sorrows" That inference
| is, that the like industry and perseverance
would in a like manner turn their unproduc
tive sorrows" into productive joys Cannot
all be induced to follow an example which will
insure such beneficial results? 1t is no wild
| flight Of fancy that leads us to the conclusion
! that the product of cotton night be doubled in
this section Of country, without appropratng
another acre to its cultivation, or without d.
ninshing in the least the other products of the
SOIL CHerov Go=ette.
The New York Courier and Enquirer pub.
| fishes an extract from a private letter received
! from New Orleans, which says:
"Peoplc begin to die here in way that does
not resemble yellow fever. Within few days
many have died in less than twcnty -four hour a.
ter being takenanda almost mmedate Y after the
breath has left the budy it has turned spotted,
being covered all over with black spots, so
! - ;-e hat &c hos
thence among us besides yellow fever. Some
| think it is Il paguc-same as was so fatal at
! Rio Janr:o last year. 1t is enough, howev-
er for us to know that from 240 to 80 daily
die from the epidemic. Our cemetery reports
of intermcnts by no means include all; many
are hurried out ofthc city and die and are buried
! in the country, have never before seen so
much alarm and confusion about sickness in
this eity--all flee who can get away. 1t rains
every day and hot sun Is steuing US up
when not raining
HoMrc1DE-A citizen ofths District named
Shadrach Johnson, was killed about II o'clock
on Sunday, some five Or six miles from this
place by II pistol shot. The Coroucr and Sheriff
with laudable prompttudc and energy, hasten
ed to the spot and by ) o'clork had convened
jury Of inquest The evidence before the
! Coroner was very contradictory, the wife of the
accused tceitying positively that Thomas Wise
I a youth of sixteen or seventeen years of agc
was the person who fired the pistol. and the
nephew of the derased Calvin johnson, some
fifteen years. old. upon examination confessed
that it WAS his act, but committed in self de-
fence The verdict was "wiliul mnrdrr,"
Shadrach Iohson is represented rs having been
= nnirt and unnl'pndinm Inan The disnutc