The eastern clarion., 1859-04-13
F1Ohl fbf If1Rt7 Tnt Mechanic.
Cotton---Preparation for Planting and

.FTOHi me If1Utf1' mt Mechanic.
Cotton---Preparation for Planting and
Culture.
The demand for cotton, present prices,
and the high prices demanded for negroes
and land, make cotton now more an alb
sorbing subject than ever before. Though
the corn merchants, and especially those
interested in speculation who hold the
crop of 1888 will be over three and one
half millions, a larger one than was ever
grown, yet ten cents in New Orleans would
satisfy very few. Improved culture is now
becoming matter of necessity, and he
who can grow two bales, where only one
grew before, and would teach us so to do,
would be worthy of monument more
lasting than brass" That the liberal soul
shall be made fat" can now be verified. be-
cause believe he who is liberal enough to
take first rate care Of his negroes, procure
and take first rate care of a No. team,
get the labor-Saving implements, and the
best of all sorts, can do almost, to make
two blades Of grass grow where only one
grew before" Before entering upon the
preparation Of SOIL let us dwell somewhat
upon preparing the proper tools When
a boy, we knew an Englishman who moved
to Columbia, South Carolina. and without
any thought or labor stumbled into fine
and well-furnished house, carriage and
horses, and all 'the tools' necessary for
gcntleman-his childless brother had
| made all this by much labor and thought,
and invited him cover the water" to par
take. Well, so it was, we were trudging
up a hill from the water works." lust be-
ing commenced by our father. when we
overlook this puff bull, who had served
his time as a tallow chandler or soap boil.
er, when we-this English gentleman and
| our noble self-fell into conversation, he
wanted to know what was to be our calling
in life, supposing we would take to the
| Iack-plane as our illustriOus predecessor
had done-we were then perhaps twelve
years of age and somewhat of fast boy
when out of dads sight. We Thought
of being a gentleman" He said, that Is
right, if you only had the tools" Now
| to be a planter, and to do ourself, oul
| country, and our race, our whole duty, we
need the tools" We now state, wher
| We know. we call names, and when not
we name several.
The "Brinley Steel Plow," true we make
it for sale, and if we did not regard it a,
The best, we would not say so. If Bro,lcy
| the prince Of ploiC makers, was worthy oul
praise before he came to Mississippi, he i
worthy now. and though we are third own
| CT of all the concern, yet we dare say wha
we believe. If you do not like them
| gentlemen, no need to get them.
The Randall Planter" or Stewart
| Planter" or "Redhead's Planter" o.
"Pierce's Drill'-names called as thel
| came 10 our notice, either will open tn,
drill, sow and cover cotton seed from eigh
to ten acres per day.
Mississippi Scraper," made by Taylor
York Scraper," made by Wason & Cook
a modified block scraper, made by KelkeI
all Of Kinds, either will scrape from thre
to five acres per day and do good work
We can with three and one-half to fou
and one-half foot rows make the first o
last do as pretty and as good work at tiy
to six and one-half dollars as the other a
ten dollars. We dare not say only as W
believe, to please any one on earth. Blu
steel hoes and the ''Scovel hoe" we prefer
especially that pattern, and eight to eigh
and one-half inches wide.
"Solid Sweeps" made correct, mode
we have ourselves hammered out of leaC
we think superior and will have some fe'
made. "Brinley's Expanding Cultivator,
for corn or for cotton. "Gullet Stand,
made by Outlet, Gladney & Co., will max
cotton to sell for one cent if fair, or on
half cent more in the pound if ordinar
and the Hs7r roller stand, made near Phil
: delphia. either will turn out, say five bale
equal to Carver stand" at least, at tv
bales.
"PrescOtt's Gin Feeder" will save OF
hand in every gin house where four to 81
bales are ginned per day.
And lastly we speak of the Provost II
| proved Press '-never saw a bale presst
! on it, but we think full as expeditions
"McComb's," no danger and more powe
which with iron hoops to tie should pa
thirty bales per day; with which tool
and man who is manager, ought to mai
now near double as much as was mac
when we entered our log cabin here abo
2 | January |, 1881.
: We certainly can with these, plant
| crop better and sooner by one half; '
B can scrape dOubly as much, We can g
= doubly as much and with less labor, c,
a press doublv, aye, trebly as much, and '
. want science alike applied to gin gesril
and to wagons; we ought to have steal
or gearing for two horses to gin,
changing once or twice, six bales per da
give speed and regular motion; and 70
we now have to haul to railroads.
n Our planters donot prize these BLESSING
| Mechanics have done much for us in Il
! past ten years. Cotton culture is no mo
# now what it was forty years ago, than
I. the universal Yankee nation;" then Z
4 | Yankees looked up to us, now we ha
e yielded inch after inch, foot after 70,
9 yard after yard, untilwe are spurned-b
/. to the matter.
= We have plow if made properly, C
r turn over the three to four inches of so
and sub-soil to say eight inches, as read
as the old "Dagon" or Carey" land
light tool did at four inches.
Coleman can with his fourteen in
- mill make double the meal, and bet
meal than we used to with Cullen Roc
4 and thirty-eight inch stone. We ha
D. to expedite work, and the Liberal so
n only enjoys the fruit thereof