Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-01-09

IT, and kill the larv@ of noxieus insects.
They then put upon these lands,
thoroughly stirred to the depth of twelve
inches or more, combination of fer
tilizers, composed of the best imported
guano, .bonedust, or land-plaster, and
common salt. This they put upon their
land, not sparingly, but to the amount Of
fifteen or twenty dollars worth per acre,
and it pays them handsomely for this
heavy outlay in preparing the soil in
proper manner for the sustenance of the
plants Mr.. Phillip Paullain, of BATH
more, formerly of Jonesboro of this State,
has, by similar method, though diff
ferent in detail. and the use of
his patented transplanting cups, reached
astonishing, and almost incredible rs-
suits. His cupi frustrum of cone,
open ct both ends, and is four inches
long and four in diameter at one end and
three at the other, of potter's clay, and
can be made at any jug mandatory, at
cost of about $l8 per thousand. These
transplanting caps are filled with rich
woods earth or surface soil, mixed with
the proper quantity of good fertilizer.
In this earth he plants eight or ten Of the
best prolific cotton seed to each cup,
from six to eight weeks before the usual
time for planting in the open field. The
cups with their contents are then placed
in troughs prepared for their reception,
and the whole is transferred to hotbeds.
NJ. Psnllain proposes to have one OF
these hotbeds to each acre, made in the
usual manner, and about fifteen by five
feet, which will be large enough. The
young plants are wstered and allowed
the benefit of tlte sun on suitable days,
by removing the glass covers, as 10 usual
in caring for plants similarly situated.
At the proper time all of the plants are
pulled up, except the two healthiest in
each cup. The land to be planted is
prepared for the reception of the plants
raised in the hotbeds, in this manner,
viz: 1t is checked eight feet by four with
the bull-tongu or shovel pillow. At the
intersection oil these furrows, hole two
feet in diameter is excavated to the
depth of fifteen or twenty yfour inches
and the holes are filled with surface
soil, or il this be not rich enough,
it sheuld be mixed with fertilizers.
When all danger from frosts shall
have past, the trays containing the
cups are taken from the hotbeds on
wheelbarrows and carried and placed
in the holes, and the cups are removed
leaving the young plants ia their proper
places, without the tops and tender
fibrous roots being disturbed. This can
be easily and quickly done, as the large
end Of the cups are placed down, aud
they therefore slip over their contents
without any trouble. These plants thus
left in this rich earth will grow rapidly,
having six or eight weeks the start of
cotton planted in the ordinary way. By
this method of planting, the supply of
nutriment for the plants is placed close
at hand, and will not require so much
manure as when spread upon the land.
If the planter has not the means to pur-
chase the fertilizers, or is not willing to
risk the amount of money on what he
may consider an experiment, he can use
the surface soil on his field and along the
fences. The crop is very cheaply worked
after planting, as the hoe and cultivstors
are alone necessary. The sap and fsrous
roots sink deeply into this rich, loose
earth, beyond the deleterious influence of
the tropical summers sun, where there
is perpeturl moisture; and the cotton
does not shed its forms, when overtaken
by drought, as it would if it had been
planted in poor soil, which had been
prepared in the common way, by scratch
ing it to the depth of one or two inches,
Mr.. Paullsin hes had one hill OF
cotton-uroduce, seven hundred pods, or
bolls. Now, suppose we make small
number of figures to show what this will
produce ION paper). The usual count
by experienced farmers is one hundred
bolls to pound, and three hundred pounds
of good dry seed cotton to one hundred
of lint. Now, one acre Of land, checked
as above, will give you 1861 hills. Then.
with the above data, we have the follow