The Greenville enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1870-1873, 1870-02-23
Origit1al Gnnlnluniratiuns.
For the Greenville Enterprise.

- Messrs. Editors Believing that
it is the duty of every one at the
present time TO contribute his mite
to develope the resources of the
South, so as to increase her pros
Perity, and repair the devastation
of the late war, i have concluded
to give the result Of an experiment
made last year in the cultivation
of cotton in this County, thinking
that it may be of some little inter-
lest to your readers, as it certainly
is to me a pleasant mode of Will
ing away o few leisure minutes
thislong winter evening. So much
by way Of introduction. Is s.
The lot, Of one acre, was rather
light, sandy upland, which had
been manured the year before for
wheat, and eleven bushels of wheat
harvested from it. The. prepare
tion commenced about the middle
of. February, by turning over with
one of Brinley's Universal one
horse tarn plows, followed in same
furrow with common old fashion.
ed coulter, each plow going as
deep rs one horse could pull tt
1t remained in that condition until
about the middle of April, when
it was laid off in four feet rows
with long and very wide, double
twister or shovel, run twice in
same furrow, followed by coulter
twice to the row. The rule being
applied, exhibited a depth of from
thirteen TO seventeen inches. In
few days, a mixture of Peruvian
Gnano, Ground Bones, Plaster and
Salt, manipulated according to Mr..
Dickson's formula, to wit: One
hundred pounds Of Guano, one
hundred Of Bones, seventy.five of
Plaster, and fifty Of Salt, was ap.
piled in the drill as evenly and
regularly as could be done with
the hand, and Immediately cover
ed by listing with a long scooter
or bull tongue, followed by two
burrows with, the Brinley, making
a high, nice bed, leaving a few
inches of the middle unbroken.-
The weather remaining cold and
wet, the seed, Dickson's Select" !"
were not planted until the 23d of
tEApril. The beds, were opened
with a very short and small scoot-
err, with o board next the stock,
which knocked off the clods and
top of the bed, leaving a clean,
fresh fnrrow into which to drop
the seed. The seed, one bushel,
were rolled in ashes and scattered
evenly along the row and covered
with q double plow. In four or
Eve days thereafter, q board, very
slightly followed out in the mid
de, was rnb over the beds, knock.
ling off the ridge made by the
double plow, leaving q clean, fresh
bed, through which the yonng and
tender plants should make their
appearance. In a6few days the
seeds came up, a very good stand,
Put on account of the wet and
Gold, they grew very slowly--in
fact, looked as. though they wonld
all die Asseon az the ground was
dry enough to plow, commenced
running round with marrow long
bull tongue, with board af. S
tached, as close to the plants ana
as deep as possible. The litfle
furrows left BY the double plow
were q gnide, and assisted very
much in this plowing. I, This en-
posing the roots to The sun, ap-
peared 10 stop the plants dying,
and in . few days---ihe weather
becoming more favorable -ithey
commenced TO grow. During nil
this time, grass was growing vigo,
J rously, and the middles were be.