The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-11-12
The OIL Cake Qucs,ioi,.

EDITOR YoRKvILLE ENoU1nEHI dnsyour issue
ni inc 18TH ultlmo, your Union correspondent
~. asks, "Will it pay the up-country farmer
to scnd his cotton seed to the Columbia oil
Alil?" and he proceeds to tako the case of a
farmer living twelve miles from the depot, and
makes figures answer the question in the nc ga
trc. beg leave to point out some important
errors i'll his figures. ...
J.. lIc values cotton sccd on the plantation
twelve miles from the depot, at tive-sixths of a
cent pound. Now. it's only value there ia as
manure. Used in this way forty bushels of
1T on an acre of corn, with favorable seasons
Will increase the yield OF tho acre. cert ainy
not more than, II as much as. Elk bushels above
what it would yield without the cotton seed
This corn, standing In the field, is worth on an
| average, year by year, six dollars, which
would mako the forty bushels of cotton seed
worth, apparently, fifteen cents bushcl. But
1T must be remembered that this value is only
to be derived from it nert gear, and should be
subjected to discount of certainly 10 per
cent; for cash value. and all the contingencies
makes the seed worth manure, certainly
not over 133 cents per bushel of thirty pounds J.
tIhe commercial bushel is thirty-throe
pounds.) So we will correct "p.'s" figures in
accordance with this estimate.
=. p" Charges the farmer with bags for
shipping the seed, which strike out entirely.
AZ an the mill advertiscs to furnish them, when
Hsesired' a. and the seed might be shipped loose,
II more convenient with but little, if any, loss
s. ~" charges the freight on oil ca ke Mt on @
cent a pound. The Grcenyillc and Columbia
Hatlroau charges only 80 cents on 100 pounds
of 1T for 100 miles, and less than that for short
er distances; and on the other roads, not being
specially mentioned in their tariffs, it will pro-
haoiy go ut fertilizer rates, which are much
! lower; SO L correct his figures OH this point
also.
1. "P." charges one-half as much for hauling
back 1o2 pounds of cake from depot as for
hauling to the depot 2, 400 pounds of seed The
cake and Tho charge should certainly not ex-
ceed one-third, and reduce his figures on this
head accordingly.
Are not these figures fair? There is no room
TO douDt or dispute any but my estimate Of the
value OF cotton seed as manure, and in that
am sure that amy one ,oio has eUer tried The er-
permanent cGrefhUy r& fully endorse them They
are derived from the experience Of many far.
mers, among them the Hon. Robert Toombs.
OF Georgia, one OF the most scientific and sue
cessful planters in the South, and who recent
iy stated to the writer, in conversation on this
worry point, that he had dete,1nined, by c.,ef,i
experiments, that in Tie most furoyGlle ci,.ct,n.
Stances ne could not afford to giUe eUrn fifteen
cents a bushel (33 ibs Jor cotton seed 10 use as
manure. WV
Farmer Jones' account will, therefore. stand
thus: '''"
FARMER JONES, DIR.
TO 80 bushels cotton sced, go lbs.) Mt
liauilng, II miles. cs............. G On
Freight on 792 lbs. oil cake, 100 miles. 2 ~
HaulinS same home ....... 2 (D
S21 81
~, -, CR.
l'y cash paid 10y mill. at 30 cents ner 100