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

iIing elements ahstra.ted from the soil
BY the crops, may be retained if tho ma
nure pile. Sell fruits aud vegetables
wherever there Is demand for them.
Ccaso 20 regard cotton Us ths only source
&C income. Valuable az Il Is, tho people
| Of the North live without cultivating Il
80 do those Of Great Britain and OF Con:
| tineptal Europe. So did your own an
cestors, in these Southern States, at one
| time.
" What 70 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 pour TO buy much Of
anything. Iron, salt, few implements,
and perhaps coffee, pretty we'll make up
the list. Tea we can make at home
sugar, also, in large portion of the
cotton States-syrup In abundance every
whefc. butter and cheese in any quaint.
| ty-cotton and woolC goods-horses and
mules We can rails pillow stocks. axe
handles, hoe helves, wagon hubs, spokes
and felloes, grain cradles, snaths, our
fathers made them all, and we are no
better, and need be no more helpless
than they. A 1.-THE of strictly surplus
cotton crop ought to buy everything
needed on 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
BILE 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
OIL medium lands, bushels each of ma
nure and seed TO 100 lbs. of phosphate
on poorer lands increase the quantity of
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 thckness-cot-
to-. seed again, and 80 on, finishing off
with a layer of rich earth. oWet the
whole thoroughly as it is being put up,
and tramp down firmly TO ptesent over
heating. Thrust n stick down in the
mass at intervals, and it. after letting it
remain ten minutes, it is found uncom-
fortably hot to the hand, make numerous
holes with stick or crowbnr and peur
in water freely TO quench the heat. 1t Is
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.
n 'Tha mo M rioIu NAV alan hn .,uad
without composting, by scattering the
cotton seed and stable impure in tie
drill, and afterwards the phosphate upon
them. Do this in February, list with
t,co burrows and complete bed in April.
BEDDING COTTON LAND
1t is we'll either to bed up now and
reverse beda in April just before planting,
or else, to. lay off rows, apply manure,
and list with two furrows and complete
bed afterwards. Two points are gained
by tho latter. LIST. Where the land is
rolling the washing is not so great with
while time IL gained by having half or
more of the york done, fresh surface
and tho weeds killed, are secured at
planting time.
WASHING OF LAND.
AS this is one OF the greatest OF evils
on 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 hill-side bitches, and strips
| five TO ten feet wide along these lines be
Gown in oat', rye, orchard grass and clo-
YER. No. land will be lost, and these un-
cultivated strips will quite effestually
stop the washing, if cars be taken to lay
of the cotton rows on level.
PREPARING FOR CORN.
On stiff soils break very deep-drought
is the great enemy Of cc-n 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 ftirrow of first or HHcond work
ing. On aplands DO sure to give good
distance-it is better to err OH the side
Of too much than too little.
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