The Osceola times., 1877-06-23
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DIR. +. NJ. Pcndleton of Georgia, in
writing on the above subject, says: We
write in the interest Of cotton planters,
(no other class), men who find them
selves with plenty of poor land without
laborers, and who desire to know how To
make mule feed in order t. grow cotton,
cultivate their fields annually and remu-
eratively, and yet gradually improve
their lands.
Admitting our postulate, that humus
Us the first principle exhausted from a
worn soil, and next to it nitrogen and
then phosphoric acid, how are those To
be restored, 80 as TO make the soil as
productive rs everl Without recon
mendiDg any regular rotation OF crops,
my plan is a. follows:
Plant cotton in fresh lands, as long as
there is sufficient vegetable matter in the
soil TO produce good, healthy plants with
out rust. applying from one to two hun.
dred pounds of good, soluble nitrophos-
phate, with z view, not 30 much TO i'm.
prove the land, as TO make a remu.
erative crop. This application will in
crease the crop from sev,nty-fve TO one
hundred per cent. on production every
yeai, and from one to five hundred per
cent, on investment, according to the
season. cultivation and the price of cot
ton, and leave in the soil considerable
phosphoric acid for the next crop.
Wherever the land is evidently meas.
urably exhausted of the vegetable matter
(which is known by rust in the cotton.
small weed, early maturity Of fruit,
great susceptibility to drouth, etc. lit
must be changed from cotton to some
bumus producingcrop. The most profit
able to the planter is the cat crop, be.
cause, while it makes more humus, it
gives him morc mule feed for the labor
than any other plant. Corn and wheat
may, however, be used with good results
in lands not too much exhausted. But
small grain crop is essential every few
years, as corn is itself, to some extent, a
humus destroying plant.
We sow oats, then first, TO make mus
Gle to produce cotton; and second, TO
grow humrs, as food for the cotton itself
In order to do this, instead Of applying
your cotton seed to corn after il has been
heated. and halt of the nitrogen lost, put
il on with your oats, sowing from
October to January, as occasion serves,
plowing in the oats and cotton seed
together with turning shovel, 80 as to
protect the roots as much as possible
from freezes. Apply from twenty to
fifty busnels of cotton seed, according to
their abundance, per acre, and the
nitrogen in the seed will not only make
a good crop and leave a heavy stubble,
but cause a luxuriant crop OF grass and
weed to spring up, which, turned in, il
possible, before il goes to seed, will give
you in the soil for the next cotton crop,
not only fine supply of humus, but
more nitrogen than you could haul out
during winter, If you had nothing else
to do, and an inexhaustible supply of
stable manure at your command.
You now prepare and plant this stub.
bic in cotton the succeeding year. with
the visual quantity OF a good nitro
phosphate, in order to supply the mani
fest deficiency Of nitrogen and phosphoric
acid in every worn soil not that these
elements have been exhausted from our
soils as yet, but existing as they do, to
some extent, in uDassimilated and insol.
ublc proportions they. must be replen-
ished by enough prepared by science to
supply the deficiency.
A soil well supplied with bY6us by
this rotation OF crops, should y planted
two years in cotton, as the fir year the
finer stems and leaves are iiiciently
converted into humus to be lropriated
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