The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1882-1884, 1883-03-01
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an oil mill. sell the right to the oil.
nave the pressed cake returned, feed
it. to stock and then return it to the
soil in the shape of droppings from
The animal. This will come in time.
1t is one Of the results of the inten.
sive system Of farming. The more
manure we need for compost, the
more sheep and cattle we'll need.
The more stock we have the more
:ot on seei cake We'll need. The
more cotton seed cake we feed to
stock at home the richer our lands
will be. We waste millions of dol.
lars annually from the failure to pen
our stock ut night. There is no ex.
cuse for any Georgian staying poor
or starving his Ian |.
Nv ith his cotton seed and stable
manure saved and composted with
tecayel leaves. pine straw. etc., apy
farmer can become rich if he wants
to and double the value OF his land
III three ye:rs.'
''How much compost should be
used to the acre -
Il is hare TO use too much. In
France the average is 10000 pounds
to the acre. A Georgia farmer will
harlly average 100 pounds to the
acre. l will average 10000 pounds
next year. Nothing pays so WE'LL"
How do you scatter 80 much to
the acre ?''
simplest thing in the world. I
start a two horse wagon through the
iiel'. l put eight negroes with half
uushe, baskets without handles. un.
der their arms in the track of each
wagon. Tney sift the compost out
of the baskets as they walk along,
and have their baskets filed from the
wagon. have changed the position
OF my cotton rows four inches to the
right every year, so that the compost
would be thrown IN new strips every
year. In this way have fertilized
my whole field, instead Of enriching
The same rows year after year. I
shall lereaite: broadcast it,"
Your whole secret then is cheap
and intelligent manure, and plenty
of it p
Yes. I've shown YOU the money
profit IN manure. I've shown you
the aided value it gives to land.
There are many other advantages.
You n.ake your crop quicker and
with !, ,ss danger. l made last year
II. ark this forty seven Uales ON sixty
five acres in three months and five
lays. 1t was planted June 9Th and
the caterpillar ii ,ished it on Septem.
b-r 10Th. l showed the agricultural
society a stalk five feet high with
l26 bolls actual count ON it. The
seed from which this plant grew was
planted jus. iil'ty-nine days before.
Cotton gtown this way can he pick
ei with half the cost AMI time of
or linary coctoa. Ga my cotton
iani this wear raiseu one hundred
bushels OF oats to the acre. and after
cleaning Off the stubble, planted
the cotton, one stalk of which l
shovel the convention"
'.Uf course, in your five years of
stu " you have discovered other I'M
plovemants III cotton planting p
! "Certainly. One is not to drop
the cotton seed in q continuous row,
nut simply to put Il few seed in the
hill waera you want a plant. BY
strewlny the seed in sprinkled row
there is great waste. A cotton
seed is like an egg. w hen the chick
IS born there is nothing but the shell
LETT. When the seed has sprouted
there is noting but the shell left.
The fertilizin. power OF this seed is
lost. Worse than this. 1t draws
from the soil tor the elements that
rake it grow. 1t is left to deplete
the soil in this way for two weeks at
least, AMI is then chopped down,
leaving only one cut OF Itwenty plants
to grow to iruiiage. Ny plan is to
plant four or five see.l in 4 hill. The
hills to stand in four feet squares.
Oh these | would let two plants to
le hill sro to p ERECTION. 1t ttkes
fro n two to four bushels Of seei to
plant an acre in the OLD way. BY
nv plan peek to the acre is enough,
an the soil is not drawn to support
a maltitu le Of surplus plants for two
or three weeks.
"Is planting in four foot squares
bester than the old way.
Yes. cotton is a sun plant and
needs room for its roots. When
crampei to IL or l5 inches it can
not attain its perfect growth. My
aim is to put the plants two together
in four foot squares. AMI average IS
to $50 bolls to the plant. This will
give me Il poun of seel cotton to
the plant, or three bales to the acre."
HE NEVER HOES HIS COTTON.
"What about hoeing your cotton -
81 never touch it with hoe. The
growth Of c).c.,l CONS from the
Sprea linz filaments that reacl. ont
from the root and feed it. II these
are destroyed the growth stops til
they are resroted. Pm satisfied
that three hoaings lost me eighteen
laws of gowth. or SIX days each. l
run a shallow plow along the cotton
lows, an never go deep enough 10
ut the roots. But there are more
ietail, in which men may differ.