The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-11-09

push II up to three bales an acre. have
lew acres on which put 10000 pounds
% compost ar an experiment, and every
acre OF it will give me three bales this
year" SN''
MT. Warthen raised five bales to the
acre?" '"'
Yes, but left his land poorer. He
pushed 1t, stimulated, and took the yerv
heart out of it. After taking off nv
enormous crop, leave my land richer
than before. ! cultivate my sixty. FIVE
acres with two plows, aud | will make
ioo bales with those two plows on sixty.
i've acres. That will be glory enough
Tor me, and will be revelation to the
world. believe l will get ninety bales
TINS year with two ploWs. Ihaye already
picked thirty bales aud the best iudees
say hardly oneihiSd is yet picked. This
isan astounding result, and simply shows
what intensive farming will do"
THE FORMULA FOR THE COMPOST.
how do you make this compcst?''
Here is my formula: Take thirty
bushels we'll .rotted stable manure or well
rotted organic matter, as leaves, muck,
etc., and scatter it about three inches
thick upon piece of ground so situated
That water will not stand on it, but shed
on IN every direction. The thirty bush.
els will weigh about nine hundred
pounds; take two hundred pounds of
good acid phosphate, which cost me
S225e per ton, delivered, making the
2oo pounds coat S2. IS, and 100 pounds of
kalnit, which cost inc by the ton. &i4
delivered, or 10 cents for 100 pounds. and
mix the acid phosphate and kainit thor.
oughiy then scatter evenly in the manure.
Take next thirty tlshels green cotton
seed and distribute evenly over the pile
and wet them thoroughly; they will
weigh nine hundred pounds; take again
two hundred pounds of acid phosphate
and one hundred pounds kainit, mix, and
spread over the seed, begin on the ma
nure and keep on in this way, building
up your heap layer by layer until YOU
get it as high as convenient, then cover
with six inches of rich earth from fence
corners, and leave at least elk weeks
when ready to haul to the field cut with a
spade or pickax square down and mix as
thoroughly RS possible. Now, we have
thirty bushels of manure weighing 900
pounds, and three hundred pounds chem.
icals 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 for TIE perfect com.
post. You perceive that the weight il
2,400 pounds. Value is:
3 bushels cotton see, I2} cts. rs
400 pounds acid phosphate. te.......... 4 SO
200 pounds kainit.. ........ 40
Stable manure nominal
lolal................ IS
Or for 400 pounds total value of 1906.
This mixture makes particularly a per.
feet manure for cotton and splendid ap.
piication for coru."
This restores to the .oil everything
the cotton sook f:cm it?"
"Escept silies, which is In the soil III
lnezhsa2sib'a quantity. So that when
you pas ~ larger qusntity Of these shan
she GOTTEN took cut, ycur soiI is evidently
sicher."
You do not believe in commercial fer.
"In certain respect. There are many
fertilizers that are made with view
TO snowy results that really p..rch and
iinposc:ish she ia5d, besides taking Al!
the farmers cash. do not believe in
them. But the chemicals that are pre-.
pared for composing are very reliable,
and we could not do without them. The
secret of success is buying these chemi-
Gals judiciously and composing with
leaves, humus, cotton seed, etc. No far.
mer can succeed permanently without
The greatest waste in the
South is with stable manure. Many far
mers never think Of saving it. In Ohio
the compost raised on one 55-acre farm,
from ten head Of horses and thirty head
of cattle in one year, was estimated by
the State chemist at S2,650, and scattered
s3,UOJ pounds TO the acre, MADE net
profit Of $500 an acre.
"Another thing is that our farmers do
not appreciate cotton seed. That comes
pearer to being perfec. fertilizer thar
any one thing in the world. Aud yet
over 100000 bushels was sold at my de.
pot but for triHe and hauled away"
"You do not believe in cotton seed mills
then7"
"Yes, do. I think the seed is just as
good fertilizer after the oil is extracted
as before. The trouble is when it is sent
to the oil mill it never comes back.
Once made into cotton meal it is sent to
for stock food and the Georgia
farm is robbed of it.
"You see the English or Northern fa-.
mer can afford to pay more for it than we
CAD because he feeds it to his stock, and
tLen saves the dropping of the stock. In
this way he fattens his cattle with it ard
still uses it as manure after Il has per.
formed this function. We do not reach
the economy because we haven't the
stock to feed it to and because We do not
save the manure Of the stock we do feed.
The ideal system would be to take the
seed to an oil mill, sell the right to the
oil, have the pressed cake returned, feed
IL TO stock, end then return 1t to the soil
in the shape Of dropping from the ami
m6l. This will come in time. 1t 10 oLS
Of the ,esulta of The intensive system of
The more manure We need for
compost. the more sheep and cattle we'll
need. The more stock we have the more
cotton seed cake we'il need. The more
cotton eeed cake we feed to stock at home
the richer our lands will be. We waste
of dollars annually from the
failure to pen our stock at night. There
is no excuse for any Georgian staying
poor or starving his land.
"With lis cotton seed and stable ma.
nure saved and composted with decayed
leaves, fine straw, etc., any farmer can
become rich If he wants TO and double
the value of his land In three years."
GLOW much compost should bs used to
the acre"
"It is hard to uee too much. In France
the average is 10000 pounds TO the acre.
A Georgia farmer will hardly average
100 pounds to the acre. l will average
10000 pounds next year. Nothing pays
so we'll"