The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1882-11-10
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fricfett Oar viz sWtwaste millions
OF dollars annuilly from the failure to pen
our stock at night. There is noexcu-e for
any Georgian staying poor or starving his
land
with his cotton seed and stable manure
saved and composted with decayed leaves,
pine straw, etc, any farmer can become rich
1t he wants to and double the value of his
lard in three years"
"How much compost should be used to
the acre
''lt is hard to use too much. In France
the average is 10000 pounds to the acre.
a Georgia farmer will hardly average 100
pounds to the acre. will average 10000
pounds next year. Nothing pays 50 we'll"
Ho" do you scatter SO much to the acre ?"
"Slmp!est thing in the world star IT
two~horsc wagon through the field. put
eight negroes with half bushel baskets
without handles under their armcs in the
track of each wagon. They sift the com.
post out of the baskets as they walk along,
and have their baskets filled from the wag.
on" have changed the position of nv
coHon>rows four inches to tho right every
year, so that the compost would be thrown
In new strips every year In this way l
have fertllized my whole field, instead of
enrichiug the same rows year after year. /
shall Ii ,rcaltcr broadcast it,"
"Iour whole secret then is cheap and
intelligent manure, aud plenty of it,"
Yes. I've shown you the money profit
ia manure. I've shown you the added val
ue 1t gives to land. There are many other
advantages. You make your crop quicker
and with less danger. l made last year.
mark this-47 bales on 65 acres in three
months and five days. 1t was planted June
9th and the caterpillar finished it on Sep.
tember 10th. | showed tn. agricultural
society stalk five feet hi eh with 126 bolls
by actual count ON it, The seed from which
this plant grew was planted inst ffty.nine
days before. Cotton grown this way can
be picked with half the cost aud time of
ordinary cotton: On my cotton land this
year raised one hundred bushels of oats
to the acre, and after cleaning off the stub.
bic L planted the cotton, one stalk of which
showed the convention"
Of course in your five years of study YOU
have discovered other improvements in cot
ton planting 2"
"Certainly. One is not to drop the cot.
ton seed in continuous row, but simply to
put few seed in the hill where you want
aPlant BY strewing the seed in sprin.
kled row there is great waste. A cotton
seed is like an egg, When the chick is
born there is nothing but tho shell left.
When the seed has sprouted there's nothing
but the shell left. The fertilizing power
Of this seed is lost. Worse than this. L.
draws from the soil tor the elements that
make it grow. 1t is left to depete the soil
in this way for two weeks at least, and is
then chopped down, leaving only one out Of
twenty plants togrow to fruitagc. My plan
is to plant four or five seed in hill, the hills
to stand In tour.fcet squares. OF these
would let two plants to the hill grow to per.
fection. 1t takes from two to four bushels
of seed to plant an acre in the old way.
by my plan a peek to tho acre is enough.
and the soil is not drawn on to support
multitude surplus plants for two orthree
weeks"
us planting in four foot squares better
than the old way 2"
es, cotton is sun plant and needs room
for its roots. When cramped to II or Is
inches it cannot attain its perfect growth.
My aim is to put the plants two together in
four foot squares, and average IS TO $50
bolls to the plant. This will give me
pound of seed cotton to the plant, or three
bales to the acre."
HE NEVER HOES HIS COTTON.
"What about hoeng your cotton ?"
Il never touch it with ii hoe The Growth
OF cotton comes from the spreading filaments
that reach out from the root and feed it. If
these are destroyed the growth stops till
they are restored. | am satisfied three
hoeings lost me eighteen days of growth,
or six days each. run shallow plow
along the cotton rows, and never 60 deep
enough to cut the roots But there are
more details in which men may differ The
main thing is the intensive system of ma.
nuring and tue outstanding all the drop.
pings and wastagc Of the farm compost L
can take any 100 acres of land in Georgia,
and at nominal cost can bring its produc
tion from sixth of bale to three bales an
acre in five years. Any man can 20 it,"
"ls your system getting many followers"
"My tenants arc adopting the intensive
plan, andarc very much encouraged Some
few ncighbors are using my fJrmuln.
have sent out, | suppose, 500 formulas for
composing. The speech made before the
agricultural association created more excite