The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1869-03-03
Planting and Plownig.

Planting and Plownig.
VI Mr.. Dickson, of Georgia, the well-know
farmer, in November last wrote the follow
ing letter which We See Is receiving 10 81
tensive publication
i SrARrA. Ga, 1868.
Editors Southern C.hirasors:
There 10 much confusion throughout N
country % to the plau OF agriculture
pnrsue-some using the solid sweep a
part Of my plan. Let me say, would no
have one OF them. Moreover. there an
other plans called mine, that I cannot 10
dorse.
will give my plan in very few words
"First, drain the vet lands. and il you wisl
or It needs it ditch the hill-thrn deeper
your soil charge it we'll with vegetable
matter, either BY rest or sowing oats, and
'eeding on the fields. sowing and turning
under pea vines, or clover and other Gras
ses. where they will succeed, etc., Then
pillow deep, and subsoil to the extent oil
your ability. Gather all the manure posi-.
bic from previous crops, cotton seed. man.
ure from stock. leaves, pine straw, and
mud and other scrappiDgs-and then add
each year to each crop, corn, oats cotton,
wheat, ETC., such soluble ammonia and bone
ETC., as Peruvian guano, land plaster, salt,
and wood ashes may have in them--the
latter ii to b hand, In any form, 1t price
that would warrant ito use.
Plant corn eight inches below a level
put the manure within three or four inches
OF the se'd. and cover about one and one.
halt inches deep. Cultivate shsllov-frst
piowing one and one half inches deer; se-
cond, inch and third, one-half inch. I
prefer heavy sweep, twenty-five to twenty
ak inches wide, either for corn or cotton.
Former communications will show how /
prepare land for Cotton and corn.
II you carry out this plan well a. to
order and time, it will never fail. One OF
you correspondents from South Carolina.
in criticising my plan, soys you cannot
make corn without . wet July. I have
made f1t-rate crop of corn with no min |
after the 18th Of June, and can do it every
time. Below I will tell that gentleman and
Others how to do it. hare never had 10 |
resort to the extreme there described. but
it will pay.
1t you wish fort 10 stand q hot and
protracted attack, you must water and pro-
vision, - we'll - man II, in order that it
may hold out until the siege is njsed-re-
ono day nnprovided for may
prove fatal; 20 II you wish cotton plant
Or corn stalk TO stand hot, burning sun,
and dry northwest wind for from four to
Len weeks, and come out safely, you must
water aud put in sufficient soluble food to
asst: How 10 that to be done? Answer
~ deepening the soil, blowing deep subsoil
ng and 6lling it with humus, that it may
'etain the greatest amount Of water. The
'oii is Ike sponge-if too porous, wster
will sink through It; X too close il will
lold but little. / find that hnmus clay and
due proportion of sand constitute the
'est OF soil. TO succeed under oil circum.
tances, with soluble plant food in album 1
lance.
will now give you plan that will car. {
, the cotton plant through eight or ten
'seks Of drought with safety, and enable I
to get ahead Of the caterpiiler-the boil q
FORM may come too soon Tor q full crop, l
ut one need not fear the caterpillar ifthey !
. not como before the first ofSeptsmbef. i
Always remember the soil must b GOOD 9
nd deep. and SUBSIDIZED six inches deeper, b
nd furnished with . good supply ofgusno, q
lsso!ved bones, plaster and ealt. A cot 8
10 plsnt to etand two weeks always re- i
'ember to use the Dickson Select Seed) i.
'cse have four inches Of soil and six inches q
ND soil-three *seks, sir inches soil, ssme =
ab'soiting; four weeks. eight inches and 6
lme sub.soillog; and for every week Of a
y. weather you will need an additional b
'ch, with Ithe same six inches sub soil q
r0ken below. So you will zee, TO stand q
N weeks drought. you have soil sixteen y
ches deep, with six inches broken below. o
This plan will hold the forms and bolls .
lr'ng the whole time, and not give them o
when it rains; but should yoa prepare
ght, and your supplies give ost or surren-
= one week before reinforeements come, Q,
sch 10 lost, and It may be too late to start T.
lew. II you prepare and carry out this y
an we'll: you msy expect from 200 to 1900 Il
'unds OF lint cotton per acre, according II
the character OF the land, locality, etc. n,
Tra!y yours. DAVID D1cxsox. 4,