Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-04-09
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Experiments VITA Measures.
Let us turn a moment from re-
construction and the bill 70 pro
mote Georgia, to the not less fra
grant, but much more useful topic
Of Fertilizers. Col. T. J. Smith,
Of White Bluff, Washington ceun.
ty, Ga, furnished the Central GeOr.
gian Of Monday with a report Of
the result OF experimets carefully
conducted by himself, with TWEEN
ty.tWo Of the standard fertilizers
and combinations Of them. As
such Information just nov is very
timely adj valuable, we cOndense
the following from the longer re-
port Of the Colonel. The land he
selected was uniform In quality
and all very poor. The prepare
tons for the crop, application Of
the manures and planting, he de-
scrlbes as follows:
I'm the preparation | followed
the ordinary plan Of running off
the land with the common shovel
plough, running twice in the same
row, to the depth of six or seven
inches, running the rows three feet
nine inches apart, and a space Of
five feet between each four rows,
with rows one hundred and forty
yards long. In each Of these four
burrows or rows, | had the differ
ent fertilizers distributed at the
rate Of twelve dollars per
acre, (equal monied value
of each brand Around
their MANFRED rows l had u long
scooter plow run on each side,
forming q ridge and covering the
Danures. Around this | had a
turn plow run forming a bed. In
these turn pillow burrows | run n
subsoil plow deep in the subsoil,
breaking the land thoroughly to
the depth of seven inches or more,
the remaining unbroken ridge
run a double winged turning pillow,
completing the preparations for
planting.
"On the sixth of May / opened
the beds and planted the seed
with the Dow Law Cotton Planter,
a machine | used before and since
the war successfully; q planter
that l think stands yet at the heat
of such machines.
THE land being dry my cottor
did not perfect its stand befort
the sixth Of June. The cultiva
ton adopted was the ordinar,
plan being generally adopted b!
Georgia planters; sweeping witt
the Hancock or Dickson sweep
running from one to two inche,
deep-not on the modern mode o
deep culture and lifting the land
The latter plan I am sure general
~ adopted would control the pro
duction 20 materially that tn
prices of the material would rang
high. In this light We would b
benefited as producers, which tn
poor of the land would 90 uncla
and unfed.'
The Colonel then reports the n
suit of three different examine
tions of the-progress Of the Gro
on the 18th Of June, 10Th Of Jul
and the 10th Of August, whic
we omit, and publish only the pr,
= ductive result Of seed cotton a,
/, tually gathered, promising thu
, where combinations of manure
! are reported the weights we
|, equal, and the area of land
D.. which the fertilizers were apple
is not given, but described as les
than an acre to each.
mo. | Peruvian Guano, 81
lbs. Fertilizers, 7Sl lbs. Georgi
Fertilizer and Peruvian, TO lbs
' Peruvian and dissolved bone
73S lbs; Peruvian PhgniX,s salt al
, plaster, 1876 lbs; Gustin's Raw
1 bone, 734 his; Peruvian and Pho
u NIX, 73l lbs; PatapscO, u
lbs; Dickson's Compound, 4
4 lbs; Patapsco and Pernvia
. 73l pounds; Sea Fowl al
. Peruvian, 720 lbs; Wilco
a Gibbs d Co, 729 lbs; Sea Foy
@ 727 lbs: Peruvian and Baker
d island. 72G lbs; Peruvian "A
y Eureka, 1876 lbs; Peruyii
IS and Pacific, IA lbs; EuI
It ka, 7l9 lbs. Soluble Pacific, 7
c lbs; Peruvian and Ammoniat
Z Rodunda, Ill lbs,; Phpnix Guar
J, 7Ul lbs: Ammoniated ROdun.
=, Guan0, 100 lbs. natural soil wi
;. nothing, 3S3 lbs.'-M Macon Tel
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