The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-05-10

From very interesting pamphlet is
sued by the Savannah Oil Company, we
take the following extracts. The Savan-
nah Oil Company's mill is the only one
in this section of the country the near
est being small mill at Augusta, Ga.
and the next nearest the Montgomery
Oil Works at Montgomery, Ala. We
urge our readers to experiment with this
meal, putting it in burrows alongside their
growing crop, and feeding it as directed.
1t can be procured in large or small guam
titles OF B. A. Meginniss, ESQ.,:
COTTON SEED AND COTTON SEED MEAL AS
FERTILIZERS.
The following remarks, by Mr.. o. O.
Nelson, President of the Montgomery
Oil Works, Alabama, show the great
waste in using cotton seed, and the great
saving in using cotton seed meal as fer
tilizer:
'The use of whole cotton seed. espec-
tally when previously heated or buried
too deep for sprouting, is probably the
least etfectual mode of employing that ex-
cellent fertilizer; and this for variety of
reasons, of which the chief are the follow
ing:
: First. The furze or hulls constitute
very serious obstacles to the access, both
of the moisture which promotes decay,
and Of the rootlets seeking for nourish
ment.
1t thus happens that when the seed is
used IN such a manner, that sprouting
taI lie - IL Il Il
lie in the soil for twelve-month with lit
tie or no change; we shall find the hull
almost intact, with a black, shrunk kerr
mel inside, inelosing all the soil ingredi-
ents, safe from the demands of the grow
ing crop. All that it does the first season
is to stimulate the soil by gases formed
in fermentation, while the most important
portion has lain idle, and failed to bear
it's owner interest. This evil Is enhanced
Second The oiliness of the SEED,
which materially obstructs decay; the
kernel being as it were put up in OIL
like sardines or olives, inside its hull.
"Sprouting will, it is true, remove these
difficulties, but in the majority of cases
this involves serious inconvenience;
whether the seed be first sprouted in
piles and then laboriously worked in, or
be allowed to sprout in hills or drills,
where it frequently chokes or kills the
other seed by lifting it out of the ground
being then, moreover, too near the sur
face to be readily available to the roots
of most crops.
Z" 1t is not enough that the soil ingredi-
ents be present; they must be put in
the right place. Manure, to be profitable,
must have its ingredients readily availa-
BILE, and must be capable of being readily
mixed with the soil around and beneath
the plant. The former condition requires
rapid and complete decay, the latter
powdery or granulated form. Both are
most advantageously fulfilled in Oil Cake
Meal, which contains substantially all the
the soil ingredients of the seed from which
it was made except the small amount con-
tanned in the hull and furze The oil car
ries with it traces only Of soil ingredients,
and its absence is an advantage, in so far
as decay thus takes place more readily
and completely. For it must be under
stood that the undecayed vegetable or ami
NAL matter is not available as nutriment
to plants
6 The high value of Cotton Seed Cake
! ~iASoA &C a CiSAAAAC1S 40 AhAAO0lCU Oy LIS
chemical composition, is amply confirmed
| by experience and while for that reason
alone we should depreciate its exporta-
tion, the fact that it is greatly to be pre-
ferred to the raw seed it represents, should
render the conversion of the latter into
Cake Meal, one of the matter-ofcourse
operations of cotton planting. The cheap
and efficient fertilizer thus produced at
home, whose quality every one can readily
control, would soon drive out of the mar
ket large portion of the dearly paid i'm
ported fertilizers; while the settled policy
of returning regularly to the cotton field,
nine-tenths of the soil ingredients taken
up by the crop in . most eficacious con-
dition, would at once establish our cotton
culture upon the firm basis of mainten-
ance of fertility"
The value of the Manure produced by
feeding animals on Cotton Seed Meal ex-
ceeds by far it's first cost.
Values of Manures produced from va
rious feeds, ascertained through investi-
cations by Messrs. Lawes d Gilbert, the
celebrated English Experimentalists-
from feeding one ton of
Oal Straw, 4 So Com, 10 So
Wheat Straw, 16. Ruia Bagas, A.
Oats, IL So Turnips, &c.
Cotton Seed Meal, 343 SO.
Bear in mind that one ton of Meal
equals, in its effect as fertilizer, four to
five tons of the raw seed.
DIRECTIONS.
For Corn-Use 800 pounds per acre.
Wien the corn is about fifteen inches
high, run furrow a. near to it az posi-
BILE, put the meal opposite the stalks, and
cover with turning plow.
In gardens, 40 wen - in field crops,
care must be taken to keep the meal from
the rootlets until they have some strength,
otherwise thsy viii be injured. This i
done by placing the meal underneath the
crops, with sufficient dirt between the
two.
For Pot0toes- Sow 800 to 500 pounds
to the acre, IN the drill; plant the seed on