The Osceola times., 1876-10-14
FARM AND HOxE.
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FARM AND HONE.
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Thou sands Of cotton gins are needless
fy injured, il not entirely ruined, by one
simple cause. That cause is permitting
moat OF lint cotton Chat is, cotton that
has been once ginned, TO be mixed with
seed cotton and passed through the saws
the second time. Such lint cotton
catches in the teeth, clogs the saws, dulls
the teeth, and bends or breaks the ribs,
wears the boxes, and strains the whole
gin 70 % to make 1t produce q bad sam
pie, and speedily becomes almost worth.
Isss. II likewise increases the DRAFT 10
- 70 distress the mules propelling the
gin, and creates 20 much friction as Of
ten 70 set the gin house On fire. Thus
can be explained the burning Of many q
gin houss BY the supposed spontaneous
combustion Of cotton,
Hence every owner of a gin house
should he careful about where his moat
cotton 10 placed, also about permitting
the flying" or ''hangings" to fall on his
eed cotton. Above all should he be
particular in preventing the ginner, or
his assistant, when returning from the
lint room after packing the cotton
bach" as IL is called, from having any
lint GU his clothing. The usual assistant
at gin TO hand seed cotton and pack
back" lint 10 Q playful urchin, who de-
lights 6st to wallow in the lint room
and then, without divesting himself OF
the lint sdhering TO his clothes, next to
roll on the seed cotton. Oftentimes
every boy, black and white, on a large
plantation, after a general frolic in the
lint room, will Immediately emerge
thereffom and continue their wrestling,
rolling and romping over the SEED cotton,
With . half pound Of lint sticking 10
each ones ragged or wooden apparel.
euch play 10 Of course delightful to the
boys, but IL Ia dear sport to the owners
Of the gin. In many gin houses, too,
while packing cotton for market, much
lint is mixed with the seed cotton, either
BY carele@ness or by the wind.
A gin Ia a costly machine, but il !.
not delicate one or put out of order il
previously ginned lint is kept out Of the
saws In fact, a good gin, tightly man.
aged, should-with little sharpening and
small repsirs-pick fifty bales OF lini
pr year, and last q planter Of average
longevity his lifetime; whereas most
gins become useless, or nearly 40, in per,
haps fve years, from the single cause
have indicated. No child ever ought tf
be allowed TO enter lint room where /,
can well be prevented.-N. G. Farmer
Buss 0. Cssss..
Mr.. Editor: Throughout South Car
olina and, perhaps, the sodth, the cry /.
that cotton has rustsd badly .hs season
Why this 10 %, and what rust ia, are ques
tions about which we see much in the
public prints, but we are yet to be satis.
bed az TO its cause or nature. We fire.
qusntly hear the remark that rust Is a
sure sign Of want Of food in the land for
the plant. Others say IL Is caused by
too much rain, and hence a sort OF
drowning condition. Others say it is
the ingredients of the soil that cause
rust, and still others, that defective seed
will eventuate In loss OF a crop from
rust. Now has any one ever expert
mented sufficiently TO prove that either,
all, or none Of these reasons are the
cause or causes OF rust
Observation and experience has almost
convinced me that starvation ia the prime
cause OF the disease. We have all no
ticed, doubtless, that amongst animal.
the weak and puuy ones are most surel,
attacked by vermin or disease and man,
think this is the cause of their condi
tion. But no no. The condition come
frst and the attack from disease or yer
min afterward. Life is a warfare in tn,
animal and vegetable world as well as il
the moral world, and in the direful con
test the weak always yield to the op
preston Of the strong. Disease is Away
IN the air, and vegetables, a. we'll as ami
mails, are attacked by it. Rust Is A vege
table plague, in our opinion, and whel
1t sweeps over the fields it attacks tn,
plants NEST liable TO disease, the weak
puny, and i'll fed plants. The process i
exactly as when any epidemic prevail
throughout the country, those who's,
systems are best prepared for the infec
ton are first attacked and suffer most
Just 10 with rust in cotton or other veg
etable growth liable to be attacked. Fo,
this COZ plant does not attack all plants
Just rs peculiar diseases in the anima
world DO not attack alike bipeds and
quadrupsds.
Now we have aid observation taugh,
us this, and we will here give YOU tn,
r".n't OF small experiment in cottoi
thh season.
The land was sandy, genuinely sandy
FOR the plough could not be made to turn
upa particle Of clay. The cotton seet
were all good. and came up vigorously
and grew of finely. The area was nearl,
two acres. The planting, preparation
and cultivation were all as is usual,
given, and hence no med 10 my NOR,
than that the land, previously in stub
ble, was bedded up, manured in tn,
water furrow, rebedded, planted, vel
boed and ploughed three times with
sweeps before being laid by, which latte
operation left the land and crop in beau
tiful condition Goth July.
Stable manure was drilled In the wntel
furrow after the first bedding, over one
acre, just thick enough to make black
streak visible rs far rs the furrow could
be seen. One half acre COW house manure
was applied the same way, On a few
rows scrapings from the lots were put
Lcached ashes on few. And finally .
few had no domestic manure. Twotwistel
turrowswere thrown upon this manuring
and Soluble Pacific Superphosphate, n
the rate Of two hundred pounds to tn,
acre, was sprinkled on the list over tn,