The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-06-17
AGRICULTURAL.

| hundred pounds range, six and a half miles.
| JOSEPH BARBIERE.
AGRICULTURAL.
RENOV4TING WORN-OUT LIMBS
For years 1 have read articles on the
above subject, in all of which the writer's
advocated barnyard manure, muck, cot
ten seed, scrapings from the woods, fence
corners, etc, not one of which do believe
is at all feasible with the present labor of
the south, or their manner of keeping
stock. In the first place there is too lit
tie stock kept in proportion to the land,
and often not then-in fact, so little ma
nure is thus made that l have never seen
a cotton plantation that made more ma
nure than would do for the. garden; and
| l have not seen three farms in all my
travels on which any quantity of manure
was hauled to the ields. Since the war
my experience and observation show me
| that but few men have been able to en-
| ploy labor to keep their farms in order,
| much less to haul manure. But there is
plan which 1 have seen succeed, by
which every acre of ground in the south
can be brought to its original fertility,
without costing you a dollar in money,
and making the owner rich while doing
it. This plan is simply the growing of
green crops, feeding them on the ground
where they grew. and turning under the
residuum. For instance, sow crop of
peas, and as soon as they are ripe (or
even before, if necessarily turn on hogs,
sheep, or cattle, or such stock as may be
wanted to fatten after they have eaten
up all they will, then turn under the re-
siduum, and SOW crop of small grain.
When this is ripe, feed off again, turn
under the straw left, and then another
crop of peas-and 80 on, for few years,
and you will find your land rich, and if
you have judiciously handled your stock,
you will find that you have made money
on that.
Sorghum is fine thing to SOW broad
cast to make a crop to turn under, or red
clover, il it will grow, but know moth
ing equal to peas.
saw an old worn out cotton planta-
ton, in middle Tennessee, that was
bought for less money than it cost to put
up the buildings, which, after few
yearsof the above treatment, was brought
to such a state of fertility that the pro-
duct of one year was fifty bushels of
corn, average, on about four hundred
acres. So, dear farmer, think it waste
of words to ever be talking of making
| any kind of manure to be hauled on the
ields.-Cor. Southern Farmer =,
ENGLISH COTTON GINS.
An improved kind of cotton gin, con-
structed with double roller and hopper
feed, has been invented and brought into
use in England. 1t is said to do its work
we'll, being especially adapted to separate
any description of cotton from its seed,
but particularly so to the class of cotton
adhering to seeds having the husk, or
smell, covered with short fibres, techni-
cally termed woody seeds, of which the
uplands is principal variety. The
roller gin has heretofore proved ineffi-
cient for this kind of cotton, in conse-
| quence of the seeds, after separation, be-
coming entangled with the seed cotton,
and obstructing the action of the roller
and knives. In the machine in question
this is obviated by the combined action
| of the moving and fixed grids. Thus, at
each elevation of the moving knife, the
grid, which is attached to the same, lifts
the cotton to the level of the fixed knife
edge and to the exposed surface of the
roller, and, on the descent of the moving
knife, the seeds, which have become sep
arated from the fibre, are disentangled
by the prongs of the moving grid passing
betwixt those of the fixed grid. The
outrturn of clean cotton of this class is
about one hundred and twenty pounds
per hour of cotton having smooth seeds
two hundred pounds NAV be obtained.
MEAL AM NAY FOR FArrEN1NG
| STOCK.
can old far mer" who has been accus-
toned to feed and fatten a few animals
has recorded small item of his practice
in regard to feeding raw meal against
cooked meal. He writes: "My practice
in fattening beef and swine, as well as
feeding cows for milk, has been to pour
boiling water on as much meal as would
not make the animals bowels move too
freely, at night, and in the morning when
the mush is cool, give it to the cow or
pig. In covering the meal with boiling
water in this way, the starch of the grain
is dissolved, and the latent nutritive
properties extracted, and the animal re-
ceives the entire nutriment of the grain.
1 have for two years past fatted two Or
binary size COWS feeding only hay, and
only three hundred pounds each of the
former, and each yielded upwards of
forty pounds of rough tallow. Salt was
given once a week, and occasionally a.
tablespoonful of wood ashes. In my ex-
perience one hundred pounds scalded and
fed as above is equal to two hundred
pounds fed. dry"
Live stock do not, in eating dry meal,
receive more than one half the goodness
many farmers as he knows, who feed from
four TO eight quarts of meal day to
one beef creature, till they feed from
seven to ten cwt. of meal to one animal
These farmers never slaughter an or
binary sized beef that yields upwards of
forty pounds of rough tallow.-S. Louis
Farmer.