The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-06-28

DR.. +. NJ. pcndIcton Of Gcorgia. in
writing ON the above subject, say4 We
write IN the interest of cotton planters,
ono other CldsS) men who find them
selves with plenty OF poor land without
iaborcIs, and who desire To know how to
make mule feed in order to grow cotton,
cultivate their fields annually and rcnn-
eratively, and yet gradually improve
their lands.
Admitting our postuIate, that humus
IS The first principle exhausted from IL
worn soil, and next to it nitrogen and
then ph0sphOrc acid, how are those TO
be restored, 50 as to make the rol as
productive rs ever? Without recon-
m'nIIng any regular rotation Of crops,
my plan Is as follows:
Plant cotton in fresh lands, a, long as
there Is sufficient vegetable matter in the
soll to produce good, healthy plants with.
out rust. applying nom one to two hun.
dred pounds OF good, soluble nitrophos-
phatc, with Il view, not 50 much to i'm.
prove the lana, ~ to make remu-
eatlve crop. This application will in
crease the crop from seyenty-iive to one
hundred per cent. on production every
yea, and from one to five hundred per
cent, ON investment, according to the
season, cultivation and the price Of cot
ton, and leave in Che soil considerable
rhosphorIc acid Tor the next crop.
Wherever the land is evidently meas
urably exhausted of the vegetable matter
which il known by rust in the cotton.
small weed, early maturity of fruit,
great susceptibility TO drouth, etc.,---it
must he changed from cotton to some
humus pfoducingcrOp. The most profit
able to the planter il the oat crop, be.
cause, while it makes more hum,ls. il
gives him more mule feed for the labor
Than any other plant. Corn and wheat
may, however, be used with good results
III lands not too much exhausted. But
II small grain crop is essential every few
years, AS corn is itself, to some extent,
hUmus destroying plant.
we SOW oats, then first, to make mus
Gle to produce cotton and second. 10
grow humus, rs food Tor 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
II on with your oats, sowing from
October TO January, az occasion serves
blowing in the oats and cotton seed
together with turning shovel, 50 as to |
protect the roots as much rs possible |
from freezes. Apply from twenty to
hity bushels OF cotton seed, according to .
thcir abundance, per acre, and the |
nitrogen in the seed will not only make
a good crop and leave heavy stubblc,
but cause luXurant crop OF grass and .
weed to spring up, which, turned in, if
possible, before it goes to seed, will give
you in the soil for the next cotton crop,
not only fine supply of humu4, but
more nitrogen than you could haul out
lurng winter, if y0u had nothing else
to do, and an ineXhaustible supply of
table manure at your command.
You now prepare and plant this stub
bic IN cotton the succeeding year. with
Tie usual quantity OF a good nitro
phosphate, in order to supply the mani
'eHt deficiency of nitrogen and phOsphoric
i'cld III every worn soil ; not that these ;
have been exhausted from our
aolls as yet, but existing as they do, to
SUM extent, IN unassimiIated and insoi. {
; "p,e proportions they must be replen- !
loneu oy enough prepared by science to q
supply the deficiency. " y
y SOIL well supplied with humus he !
this rotation OF crops, should be plantsa a
Two years III cotton, as the irst year tbe
inner stems and leaves are suitic;an ,Iu !
converted into humus to be appropria,eS !
rs plant food, leaving the coarner stall, +;
anu weeds to come into play the second ,
year. Thu, rotation of two wears in ,
cotton and one in oats applying cotton
seen ana guano as indicated, will give
ielnuneTatIve crops and keep the soil
which has been aud are being rxLani,oJ
from 1t, viz: humus, nitrogen, and bios.
phoric acid. '''o'
me Household.
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