The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-04-25
Cotton seedsas a Fertilizer.

There is a great wisdom in outstanding
home resources for fertilizing our lands and in
creasing our crops. The seed of cotton has
especial value as fertilizer, and while we
know that with many it is properly apprecla-
ted and cared for, there are others, beginners
especially, who will profit from the useful
suggestions following, which we copy from
ourexcelIent exchange, the Cotton Planter
ain this connection, manuring, we cannot
too strongly urge upon you the importance of
outstanding your cotton seed, as the very best
manure YOU have or-can procure. Cotton
seed are regarded by the planting interest OF
the eoutry as very inconsiderable matter, a
kind of fire to ten or fifty cents per bushef
affair But the American Cotton Planter
has again and again told you differently, and
the Cotton Planter and Soil reiterates the
fact again this January, that cotton seed are
Just as well worth one to two cents per b. for
manure as guano is two or three cents per ID.
This is a question of the first importance to
the cotton planters Of the country, and we in
tend to urge it fully, as we desire the subject
fully understood.
aNow for the assertion that, when properly
applied. there is no fertilizer more certainly
renunerating. First, they are not properly
spilled when thrown out as ginned, to lie ex-
posed to the weather, rains and wind, and
rot, as is common ser the country! They
are not properly applied when thrown in or on
the hill handouts They are not properly APP
piled in any way which does not allow the plan
ter to obtain for his crops all the fertilzing ele
ments which they possess How, then. says
the reader, may we apply them properly and
get all the benefit from them they so richly
promise First keep them under cover care
fully as you gin them, and apply to your soil
earIH, and in their green or Hve state. Second,
haul them out on your land, h0Tizontalized,
allowing 30 bushels to the acre, quite enough,
and then run off your rows horizoHtally, and
In that furrow run subsoil pillow, drawn by
two good mules then let your hands, enough
to do the work, SOW. your cotton seed in these
burrows, seven or eight times as thick as
seed are generally sown for planting. List
two burrows on this with small shovel plow,
to break the land close and good then run
around this list or ridge each row, with a turn
pIow. and let it SO remain till planting for
either corn or cotton. You have now in this
ridge. regularly distributed along the row, the
very elements of good crop, to decay just
where you need il, neither to be evaporated
BY the suns rays nor leached out by the rains,
but, to remain there lsaUeTaing up the soil,
light and rich, preparatory for seed at planting
time and the growing crop. At planting time
you run around the bed two other turn fur
rows, and you have the bed ready for the drill
and the seed. Thus properly applied, you
lose nothing in labor, evaporation or teaching ;
yonr young crop of either corn or cotton gets
the food, this rich 81 20 per gallon oil I just
as it needs it-neither too rapidly when rain
ing or too fiery when dry, but just as your
horse or pig receives his food from day to day
to healthy growth and fattening-
Now this is all plain enough-eyery planter
can understand it-and every one can have it
done, and every one in this way may certainly
realize an increased production in corn or cot
ton of 30cents per bushel for this cotton seed,
and Ills land left in better condition for the
next crop.