The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-02-07

izing elements distracted from the soil
by the crops, may be retained ID the ma
nure pile. Sell fruits aud vegetables
wherever there is a demand for them.
Cease to regard cotton as the only source
of income. Valuable as it is, the people
of the North live without cultivating It
30 tlo those of Great Britain and of Con-
tinental Europe. So did your own an
cestors, in these Southern States, at one
time.
What to buy: Just as little of every
thing needed as you possibly can. Econ
omy should be our motto for years to
come. We are too poor to buy much Of
anything. Iron, salt, few implements,
and perhaps coffee, pretty well make up
the list. Tea we can make at home
sugar, also, in a large portion of the
cotton States-syrup in abundance every
where, butter and cheese in any quaint:
ty-cotton and wooden goods-horses and
mules We can raise-plow stocks, axe
handles, hoe helves, wagon hubs, spokes
and felloes, grain cradles, snaths, our
fathers made them all, and we arc no
better, and need be no more helpless
than they. A 1.-THE of. strictly surplus
cotton crop ought to buy everything
needed on a farm, and the remaining
nine.tenths pass to the account of accu-
mulated profits.
But we have dwelt long enough at
present upon this subject, and must pass
on to make few suggestions about cur
rent work.
Cleaning up, ditching and fencing are
still in order. No time for these after
crop work fairly begins.
PREPARING coMPoSTs.
If not previously done, should be at
attended to. The best are made of sta
bic manure, cotton seed and acid phos.
phate or dissolved bones. Proportion Of
ingredients vary with the crop and land
TO which it is to be applied. For cotton
on medium lands, bushels each of ma
nure and seed to 100 lbs. of phosphate
ON poorer lands increase the quantity ol
manure and seed, and decrease them on
richer soils. For corn, 10 to Is bushels
of each to 100 lbs. phosphate. Put
down layer of cotton seed, say two
| inches thick, scatter phosphate on this,
| then stable manure same thickness-cot-
ton seed again, and so on; finishing of
with a layer of rich earth. 'Wet the
whole thoroughly as it is being put up
and tramp down firmly to prevent over
beating. Thrust a stick down in the
mass at intervals, and if, after letting il
remain ten minutes, it is found uncom-
fortably hot to the hand, make numerous
holes with a stick or croHbar and pour
| in water freely to quench the. heat. 1tii
not necessary to protect from weather
but do not put under the caves Of build
| ings. "A compost prepared as above, may
be used in four weeks after it is put up,
but two to three months is best.
The same materials may also be used
without composing, by scattering the
cotton seed and stable mappre in the
drill, and afterwards the phosphate upon
them. do this in February, list with
too burrows and complete bed in April
BEDDING COTTON LAND.
It is we'll either to bed up now and
reversc beds in April just before planting
or else, to-. lay off rows, apply manure
and list with two burrows and complete
bed afterwards. Two points are gained
by the latter. 1st. Where the land is
rolling the washing is not so great with
low lists as with high beds, and End
while time is gained by having half OF
more of the work done, fresh surface
and the weeds killed, are secured at
planting time.
WASHING OF LAND.
As this.is one of the greatest. of evils
on a cotton farm, attention cannot be
called too often to modes Of preventing
it. On very steep hill-sides nothing but
well constructed bitches can prevent it,
but on moderate slopes, we suggest that
lines of level be laid off at ordinary dis
tances of hillside bitches, and strips
five to ten feet wide along these lines be
sown in oats, rye, orchard grass and clo-
yer. No land will be lost, and these un-
cultivated strips will quite efectually
stop the washing, if care be taken to lay
off the cotton rows on level.
PREPARING FOR CORN.
On stiff soils break very deep-dronght
is the great enemy Of corn on uplands.
Lay off rows and put in say one.half OF
the manure to be given the corn, and list
ON 1.-THE remainder Of manure apply
in siding furrow at first or second work:
ing. On uplands be sure to give good
distance-it is better to err on the side
OF too much than too little.