The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1882-11-10

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AN AVERAGE OF TIRE BatssSfo TnE
"Whore will you stop in this progress.
sion 2"
81 don't know. 1 shall double INV manu-.
ring next year, putting 5000 pounds to
the acre. | believe l will get $50 bales
from the 65 acres. hope to push it up to
three bales an acre. have few acres on
which [ put 10000 pounds of compost as
an cxperimt, and every acre of it will give
me three bales this year"
"Mr. Warthen raised five bales ito the
acre 2"
Eyes, bu: left his land poorer. He
pushed its, stimulated it,,,and tIok the very
heart out of it, After taking off my enor.
NOUS crop, | leave my land richer than
before. cultivate my sixty. five acres with
two plows, and will make $50 bales with
those two plows on sixty five acres That
will be glory enough for me, aud will be- a
rvclation to the world. believe will get
ninety bales this year with two plows.
have already picked thirty bales and the best
Judges say hardly onethird is yet picked.
This is an astounding result and simply
shows what Intensive farming will do"
TIE FORMULA FOR THE COMPOST.
"llow do you make this compost ?"
Here is my formula:
Take thirty bushels well ro.tcd stable
manure Or well ro,ted organic matter, as
leaves, muck, etc, aud scatter it about three
iuches thick upon piece of ground SO st>
uated that water will not stand on it. but
shed off in. every direction. The thirty
bllShnlS h., ~,
pounds ); take two hundred pounds Of good
acid phosphate, which cost mc S22 so per
ton, delivered, making the 200 pounds cost
81 20, and 100 pounds kainit, which cost
me by the ton Sl4, delivered, or 20 cents
for 100 pounds, and mix the acid phosphate
and kainit thorppsbl, thsu scatter evenly
on the manure. Take next, thirty bushels
green cotton seed and distribute evenly over
the pile ~ Rs ZEN 'thofougRly; they
will wc{gt ]l6nalred pounds, take
again twoia5 98 pounds acid phosphate
aud seven ahq3 Ee} pounds kainit, mix, and
spread 0vsI iced, begin again on the
manure and kedpon in this way, building
up your heap layer by layar until you get it
as high. as convenient, the cover With six
inches of rich earth from fence corucrs, and
leave at least six weeks; when ready to haul
to the field cut witha spade or pckax square
down and mix as thoroughly as possible.
Now, we have thirty bushels of manure
weighing nine hundred pounds, and three
hundred pounds chemicals in the first layer,
and thirty bushels cotton seed weighing
nine hundred pounds and three hundred
pounds OF chemicals IN the second layer,
and these two layers combined form the
perfect compost. Yon perceive that the
weight is 2,400 pounds. Value, at cost is
80 bushels cotton seed, l2a cts. 375
400 POUNDS acid phosphate. 4 SO
200 pounds kainit. .. l 40
Stable manure homiinal. "-----5 -
Total. 50, 65
Or for 2, 400 pounds total value Of 80 65.
This mixture makes practically perfect
manure for cotton and a splendid applica-
tion for corn.
"This restores to the soil everything the
cotton took from it 2"
Except silica, which is in tho soil in
inexhaustible quantity. So that when you
put in larger quantity Of these than the
cotton took out, your soil is evidently rich
err"
You do not believe in commercial ferlili.
zers 2"
''ln certain respect. There are many
fertilizers that arc made with a view to
snowy results that really parch and impov-
erish the land, besides taking all the farmers
cash. l do not believe in them But the
chemicals that arc prepared for composing
are very reliable, and we could not do with.
out them. The secret of success is buying
these chemicals judcously and composing
with leaves, humus cotton seed, etc. No
farmer can succeed permanently without
composing. The greatest waste in the
south is with stable manure. Many farmers
never think Of saving it. In Ohio the com
post raised on one 55 acre farm, from ten
head of horses and thirty head of cattle in
one year, was estimated by the State chem.
list at 1850, and scattered 10000 pounds
to the acre, made net profit of $500 an
acre.
another thing is, that our farmers do
not appreciate cotton seed. That comes
nearer to being perfect fertilizer than any
one thing in the world And yet over 100.
600 bushels was sold at my depot but for
trife and hauled away"
You do not believe in cotton seed mills
then 2"
"Ycs ! do think the seed is Just as