Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1882-11-02
wALHA1LA SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, NOVEMBER $ 1882

end wo have S2,650 as the profit on use of
MANURE"
"And then the land is so much richer2"
"Certainly. It is worsh 500 an acre,
where it was formerly worth IS. You
must credit the manure with this"
"Whcro will you. stop in this progress
siou2"
II dou't know. I shoIl double nv ma
nuriDg next year, putting 5000 pounds to
the acre. believe will get $50 bales
from the 65 ucres. 1 hopo to push it up
to three bales 40 acre. have a few acres
on which put 10, 900 pounds of compost
as an experiment, and every acro of it will
give inc three bales this year."
Such results arc most encouraging to
larmers in South Carolina who, by other
means, have increased lurgeiy the yioId of
their lands Nowhere has there been
greater increase 10 the crops, as tho result
OF intelligent farming, than can be found
in this State. A planter in Chesterfield is
reported as makingi twenty bales of
cotton 90 twelve ocre field. During the
last season more than threo hundred bushels
OF oats were made to an acre in this State,
By the application Of the Raveucl system
thirty and forty bushels of wheat to the
ncre have been made in light sandy land
which uuder normal conditions would not
produce more than fvc or six bushels. On
the Sea Islands, by aub-soiI draining aud
high manuring, the yield Of long cotton
has gone as high as 566 pounds to tho acre.
Under the slave system tho average yield
was not more than from eighty to Quo hun
drcd pounds to the acre. One Of the
planters on James Island spcuds nearly
slO0 an acre for fertilizers, labor and gin
ning In Beaufort, Us was reported in the
Nc'os and Courier yesterday, two farmers
from Maine, who live on "a poor little farm
OF thirty five or forty acres," have made
on field of seventeen acres, this year, two
and half tons of long forage aud hay to
the ocrc On field of fvo acres they
made 125 barrels Of Irish potatoes, to-
gether with from five to sevep and half
tons of forage from German mllet and Eve
tons of pea hay. Thcae are illustrations of
progressive farming 10 South Carolina
which occur to US ut the present moment.
Mr. Farman gives the following formula
for making his compost:
"tlow do you make thia compost?"
"Here is my formula;
"Take thirty bushels we'll rottcd stable
manure, or we'll rottod organic matter, as
leaves, muck, etc., and scatter it ubout
three inches Thick upon piece of ground
SO situated that water will not stand on it,
but shed off in every direction The
thirty bushels will weigh about nine hun
dred pounds; take two hundred pounds Of
ucld phosphate, which cost mo S22 so per
ton, delivered making the 200 pounds cost
1925, and 100 pounds kainit, which cost
me by the ton 3l4, delivered, or ~ cents
foril0 pounds and mix the acid phosphute
und kanit thoroughly, then scatter evenly
ou the manure. Take next, thirty bushels
green cotton seed and distribute them
evenly over the pile and wet them thor
oughly; they will weigh nine hundred
pounds; take again two hundred pounds
acid phosphate and seven hundred pounds
kanit, mix and spread over the aeed, begin
again on the manure and keep on in this
way, building up your heap layer by layer
until you get it az high os convenient; then
cover with 6 inches of rich earth from fence
corners, and leave at,least six weeks; when
ready to haul to the field cut with spade
or pickaxe squarc down and mix as thor
oughly US possible. Now, we have thirty
bushels of manure weighing nine hundred
pounds and three hundred pounds Of
chemicals in the second lnyer, and these
two layers combined form tho perfect COM
post. You perceive that the weight is
2,40O pounds. Value at cost is:
30 bushels cotton seed, 123 cents SO rs
400 pounds acid phosphate 450
200 pounds kaint 40
Stable manure nominal -
Total 80 65
Or fer 2,400 pounds total value of S9.65
This mixture makes practically perfect
manure for cotton and splendid applica-
tion for corn"
This restores to tho soil everything the
cotton took from it2"
Except silica, which is in the soil in
mex xhaustiblc quantity. So that when you
put in larger quantity of this that the
cotton took out, your soil is evidently
rioher."
WAsHrNToN, October 25.-The Rcpubli.