Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-03-12
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Nessrs. E1ogeIha1'd te Sauaders::
Over twelve months ago I wrote an
article to the JOURNAL and threw ont
a challenge to several counties III
Eastern North Carolina I stated that
| expected to make more cotton on a
six acre lot, in the year 1874, than any
person in the counties nfmed. and as
L have this day finished ginning, pack
ing and weighing the same, will give
the result. have gathered and pat
up fourteen bags of lint cotton from
the six acreH. Weight of bags at gin,
bagging and ties included, twelve of
them now on hand, sol, 1856, 456. $40,
696, $40, 1856, 476, 431, 1896. 4O6, 406
aud 1876, t02 pounds. Average
! 457 IT.
Now, Sirs. this crop may be beaten,
! but L think it worth reporting II ie5
! others know what we ave doing down
! here in this low eround OF sorrow, as
( the preachers say.
! This laud ia 1856 was stocked IN
! long leaf pine and cove. ed with wire
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stumps standing on it. q wish they
We're out) 1t was well manured and
pIlt in potatoes yearly up to the war.
In 1872. put in cotton. and made from
! ESQ to 900 pounds Of lint to the acre
In March, 1873, put in oats and made
, good crop Georgia rust proof oats. /
with no manure. The first of July, |
put in field peas, manured with !
one hnndrcd pounds superphosphate |
per acre. Let the hogs take the ptiss,
but permitted nothing to touch the !
vines. III March. 1874, put OF for /
one LOrso loads of lot, static ana hog /
pen manure per oCre, scattered some !
broad cast AID flushed the land from I
SIX tc Sven luChas deep the 25th Of |
April run rows off Gour and = haif feet |
wide, six or eight lrches deep and pnt /
iii dfiit fifteen bushels of cotton seed. /
three hundred pounds of plain dis
solved bones, one bushel of salt, and i
Que bnSliel OF plaster per acre, com
posted; made NY beds on this by r1n-
nlrg two furruws IN oue-a small !
p!ow following a larger ore, of Brinly's !
make; OF the lst day OF May, with Il
Dow Law planter, put III one and one
fourth bushels per acre improved |
Simpson cotton seed, raised and sc
lected by myself the planter preced !
ed by a harrow; broke out the middies
with a seven inch Brnley plow, run as
deep as nsgoOd, mule could carry it;auIs
tivated well with hoe and sweep; left |
the cotton from eighteen to twenty
inches on drill, and from one to two |
stalks 80 the hil. lost some of this
cotton a. / did not get It out till the
18th OF December. While the Simp- t
son cotton is the most prolific cotton [ |
have ever seen it falls out very badly |
Ii l5 is not picked in time.
Well, gentlemen, while [ am only q
one horse farmer. yet this ID not quite
all Of my crop. l put four other acres
in cotton, Oh an old dunebil, which
has not been manuY.L siuce [ left it,
twenty years Ego; part OF this Is
very poor. Ihia patch was manured |
with twelve bushels of cotton seed,
green, ard cwo hundred pounds of !
ammonla:ei dissolved DO cs per acre
II made thsFe bags of cotton one luit-
>ired and ninety six pOundS OF lint put |
III other bags: the weight of bags at
the gin was 497. 433 and t39 pounds.
L also had twenty acres IN corn man
ured with % bushels OF cotton seed |
aud 100 pounds plain dissolved bones |
per acre. The twenty acres made l2o |
barrels, measured by wagon loads. |
The crop was cultivated with three |
hands. My SOL, boy is years Old, !
plOughed it. and young white man |
and Il rather sorry coiored gentleman |
did the hueing. There WAS some ten
ants that did well, esoecially SO, I |
think. for colcred people. One set OF |
boys ard gi~ls put in ten acres IN cot I
ton maaurtd with IT'S pounds OF phos-
pbate and made seven bags, averag /
ing i55 pounds An old servant of .
m'ne, q woman, and children planted !
Is acres, rnaIlured with 200 pounds !
superp phosphate. and saved sixteen /
40 pouud bags o cot On and lest sew |
erai, as she planted Simpson seed und !
did not get t ont TIL 10th February. /
She SAID to me few days ago, Mus /
:er, (uh hUsu this would make your |
CRY negroes roll thrir ey ts} that land |
/ tended last wear viii not want any /
manure THIS year; 1 manured 1t for !
you this winter.
know two other gentlemen IN my |
uaich hborhood, VINO fcur years ago disi !
not make more than 900 pounds of |
lint cotton per acre, and who for the !
last two years have made from 400 10 /
500 pounds.
provement been brought about ? b. |
adopting the intensive system. BY |
pIantiuF She best seeds; by using III
pvoved pious, and above all. by ub- |
stitnting manure for labor. L [ wa |
capable OF advising my brother farm
ers, / would say to them cut down |
your acres, make as much cotton or |
com on one acre as you now do on !
five and save tn labor and wages OF |
five hands. Use the very best i'm |
proved plows; use all the mud, woods |
N Il, o. and stable manure you can,
and be sure to Use with 1t, for |
cotton, from 100 to 800 pounds Of |
good super phosphate. Buy the best |
seed, If you have them not. If you |
have 10 pay SO per bushcl, it will |
pay You and sure you take the Vii !
m,ugt0n Journal and other good |
Democratic papers, ard by all means, |
II You aTt' u farmer ar ever expect to |
be, take the Southern Cultivator,
Attn as Ga. But, says one, | have p
large farm; Mat shall l do with it?
Cuitlvate AS much Of 1t we'll, you
Can pu- manure enough ou, to make it
bring from 400 to 500 pounds OF int
cotton, or s or 7 barrels q corn per
acre. and no more. Tenant the BAL
ance out to oth, RS, that can and viii
scratch over il, OF after you are done
your crop put 1t i'll field pea, manur
cd with one hundred pounds dissolved
| bones, and be sure and pick and sell
enough of the peas to pay for the
| hones, aud let your stock take the
baiance, and If you can't do this. let it
| grow up for a more enterprisipg race
titat will come after you; others may
| say ] do not know which is the best
| pillow. or I can't pay the price All
can say is you had better tuy and pay