The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1860-06-20
Agruultutnl.
Cotton Seed as q Fertilizer

There IS great wisdom in outstanding
home resources foI terliiizing our lands
and increasing our crops The seed of
cotton has especial value as fertilizer,
and while we know that with many i, is
property appreciated and cared for there
are others, beginners especially, WHO will
proh' from the useful suggestions follow.
my, Which we copy from our excellent
exchange, the Cotton Planter:
ain this connection, manuring, we can.
not 200 strongly urge upon you the i'm.
portance Of husbanding your cotton seed,
as the very best manure you have or can
procure. Cotton seed are regarded by
the plating interests of the country as a
very rconsIderahtc matter, kind of five
To ten Cr fifty cents per hushe affair -
But the American Cotton Planter has
again and again told you differently, aud
toe Cotton Planter and Soil reiterates
the fact again this January, that cotton
seed are ust as well worth one or two
cents per ID for manure AS guano is two
or three cents per 10 his is question
Of the tirst importance TO the cotton plan.
ters OF the country, and we Intend 10
urge 1t fully, AS we desire the hject ful
Iy understood.
Nov tor the assertion that, when pro
perry applied, there is no fertilizer more
certainly remuncratjug. First, they are
not properly applied when thrown out
as gnned, to lie exposed TO the weather,
rams and wind, and rot as is common
over the country ! They are not prop
cry applied when thrown in or on the
MI 10y hanGfuls They are mol properly
applied in any way which does not allow
the planter to obtain for his crop, all tire
iertiilzing elements which they possess
How, then, says the reader, may we ap-
ply them properly and yet all the bene-
III from them they SO richly promise q
First. keep them under cover carfully
"s yon gin them, and apply to your soil
early and in their green or live state
Second, haul them out on your land, hor
!zon!nii2ed, allowing 80 bushels 10 The
acre, quite enough, and then run Of your
rows horizontally, and in that furrow run
"A snbsOil pIow, Drawn Vy two good mules:
then let your hands, enough to do the
work, SOW your cotton seed in these fur
rows. seven or eight times as thick as
seed are generally sown for planting. List
two furrows or this with a small shovel
plow, to break the land close and good
then run around this list or ridge each
row, with turn plow, and let it so re-
main ill planting for either corn or cot.
ton. You have now in this ridge, repu-
iarly distributed along the row, the very
elements of q good crop, to decay Just
where you need it, neither 10 be evapora-
ted by the suns rays nor leached ou. Dy
the rains, but, to remain there leaveninp
up The soil, light and rich, preparatory
for seed at planting ;ime and the grow
ing crop. At planting time YOU run a.
round the bed two other turn burrows,
and you have he bed ready Cor the drill
and the seed. Thus properly applied, you
lose nothing in labor, evaporation or
teaching your young crop Of either corn
or cotton gets the food, this rich $l.25
per gallon oil ! Just as it needs it
neither too rapidly when raining or too
iery when dry, but just as your horse or
pig receives his TODD from day to day to
healthy growth and fsttening.
Now this is all plain enough-every
planter can understand il-and every one
can have it done, and every one in this
way may certainly realize an increased
production in corn or cotton Of 80 cents
per bushel for this cotton seed, and bis
land left in better condition for the next
crop"