The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-09-22
THE FARM.
BY AGRICoLA.

/ For the Clarion.
(cokTINCED.)
Cotton seed ms a Manure.
None of US are aware of the real value
Of Cotton Seed Is a manure, or as fooC
for stock That able chemist, Prof
johnson, has recently made some expert
ments and observations on the value OF
cotton seed as manure and food for cat
tie that are really astonishing and worthy
| the attention of all interested. He shows
that 1t is really superior to all other arti.
cles as manure, and not much inferior
to any other article as food for stock
We should have, and hope the time is
not far distant, when we will have ma
chinery On a small scale that can be at
| tached to the Clubhouse, to express the oil
| from the cotton seed. Until then the
best mode of using cotton seed for man
ure, is to fix up a machine in the GIN
house to be run by the gin power, to
crush the seed. An ordinary sorghum
cane crusher, made oftwo cylinders, only
set up horizontally instead of perpendicu-
larry. One Ofthese could be set up at a
trifiing expense and would crush 500
bushels per day. When they are crush
ed, either just throw in pens and compost
them with earth, putting down six inches
of earth, then six inches of cotton seed al
ternately until you have filed UP a pen
10 or Is feet high, to be hauled out in
the spring and distributed. Or you can
take it into the field Immediately from the
crusher, and pillow it under. If cotton
land put the seed into deep furrow and
bed on it. If corn land always spread it
broad cast and pillow thunder.
MUCK AS A MANURE.
During summer and fall, when the
lakes and streams are low, gather all the
muck, leaves and deposit from the low
places in the swamps, haul it to the field
and compost it in pens, as you did the
cotton seed, adding some lime. All the
ashes on the place should be carefully
saved for manure. The wood yard, hen
houses and other places should be cleaned
out thoroughly and distributed Cd the
field.
This system of manuring must be thor
oughly carried out the whole year through
Nothing must interfere with it, as it is in
to profitable planting. To
this manuring add commercial manures
sufficient to make your land produce or
l bales of cotton per acre, where it pro-
duced only ] bale before, and three bush
els of corn where it only produced one be-
fore. Plant one acre where you planted
two before; use the improved implements
Of husbandry; cultivate on the improved |
system-deep blowing, subsoiling, level
culture and shallow cultivation-and you |
will find planting not only profitable but |
exceedingly pleasant and agreeable.
Having said this much on the profits of |
stock raising and manuring connected |
with planting, because these two are of
he first Importance in planting, l now
proceed to the cultivation.
In the first place remark that the old |
system of cultivation must be entirely |
abandoned. The bedding up of land in
he winter and spring preparatory to
planting, is entirely objectionable for the
reasons:
1st, You cannot break the middle of |
he bed well where you intend to plant,
md it is very laborious on the plowman
md team to open the first furrow and |
hen throw the two next burrows back;
Tour mules are greatly worried in walk
ng on plowed land while making the bed,
md when you have plowed the bed it is
-ery much injured by the tramping of the
mules. All this can be avoided by plow-
ng broadcast and the blowing can be
lone in one-third less time and with one
bird less labor to man.
(To BE CoNTISUED.)