The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-05-22
PLANTING COTTON.

The Senatobia MISSY Express advises
when proper compost for the cotton crol
has not been prepared, that twenty bushels
nure and twenty bushels of wood ashes may
be applied to the acre, and adds: Have tbs
rows about four feet wide, and ia the lay-of
burrows distinctly made, apply the manure
as evenly distributed as possible, and list on
1t with the same pillow that made the first fur
row. Now open this list with deep furrow,
and throw the two burrows back, just as 1t
was done at first, the object being to thor
oughly incorporate the soil and fertilizers. In
order to prevent shedding in case of drouth
On this list finish out the bed with turn-pow.
Plant as early as the season will Justify Cut
the plants out to one in place, every twelve
inches. Thorough but shallow cultivation
will give you from 1000 to $500 pounds of
seed cotton per acre
| Another journal, the Southern Chltirat0r, In
| relation to cotton manuring the stand, and
cultivation, says:
For a long time the cry was distance, until
about 1874, perhaps. a farmer chopped out
with an eight-inch hoe, none in his field over
ten inches, leaving one, two or three stalks as
usual next working thinned to one, leaving
double stand. An old planter was advised to
take out as usual. The driver foreman Of the
hands, was sent into the tield-440 yards
sQilare-directed to cress the fields, count all
boils, blooms dropped. He returned stating
that thirty-tive was the average. He was
asked what he thought Of taking out half the
1e INplleu ny SdylUR. we nave
thirty-tive hollis now, and it will be uncertain
II one stalk gets to seventy, soon.' This was
II iuEe. The forty acres, well kept clean as
the balance, and better crop was made than
before One row was picked; one acre was
picked and weighed; the field picked and
WelgheG, and no mistake. | had seen small
n Ias 10 South Carolina my father's) prior to
ISZU, IN hills and two stalks. [ never saw it
alserWare tested. l always thought to test
anu ordered oveiSeerS to test, but they for
spI-reaiis could not or would not change
- reason III 1874 and after was. the early
crop makes the cotton crop, and 1t bears
St LIN III IL rows when small and when the
DUH OF the crop is made.
prefer ol meal. and a nure s,,,ernhos-
phate for Gotten. Have made fine crens with
SOUND cotton SEED drilled in January two fur
rows 10 cover, and seed left to decay in land. |
u april bed up and plant Rave had a fest |
~ tuual quantity OF rotten seed and sonnd |
SEED, acres OF each on same land. worked
aux ana at the same time. TIE sound seed
the best ali the year. -'eo0
II have tested sufficiently to satisfy me
tha5 OIL meal, supsrphosphate taspeciaIlsr If
made Of fresh bonesj and rich ton All III; n
give largest results. Land without manure
giving only 76G to 800 pounds has given me-
over 800 pounas. weighed in the field.
use subsol pillow Freely where land IN
cllnes, Iat water can pass from bottom of
iurroW. l cultivate early and Iate-use the
sweep or some cuitivator that merely stirs
the surface: | always did stir the surface
even until nrst picking was over, as there vas
not enough Tor all hands to get out. I be-
Ileve IN late stirring. done regularly every
we've or fourteen days. The bolls grow
4 rgef and there is less shedding. Breaking
lG1os now and then did not stop my plows.