The Opelousas courier., 1883-01-13
rhe Furman Compost.
Il 0. P~icayunie.

1,'sayu,le, had excited much IN
a la,sst among the farmers; But
Hi / curious fact that impor-
III information like that fur
sa by Mr. Furmali may be
n.ssaeralIy credited as reasonable
seJ honest truth, and yet not
ca Il fifty, will take the infor-
nation " given. The twig was
las wrong in childhood and
= later years the crook is too
lid to admit Of a change in the
.;sht direction. Another strong
,sooff il favor of starting farm
II boys with correct ideas that
q uav not need changing, and
sbaf win become stronger as one
Mr. Furman, in speaking of
Id compost, says:
aAcid phosphate gives phos-
nhoric acid and lime.
.sStall manure Of organlcmat-
3, oiyes ammonia and humus.
a5Jotton seed gives ammonia,
ootash and humns. d.
aKainit gives potash, lime,
magnesia and soda.
Nsiliea is always present in
IA soil in inexhaustible quanti-'
ties
By returning the cotton stalks
il tle soil, which contain valuo-
hle fertilizing properties, and
resnrning more cotton seed than
gks taken off in the previous
eF5p. and adding acid phosphate
ammonia, humur potash, lime,
mapnesia and soda, the soil is
literally fed at the same time
That the lint Of 1900 pounds Of
saed cotton takes but little from
the soil. BY such treatment
Mi becomes richer every year.
II i'll such a soil, treated in this
manner, a rotation of crops
saouIa Be adopted, changing the
fertilizers, in some respects, to
suit each succeeding crop, the
yearly crops from some of the
oa fields now worn ont would
assonish those who spoiled the
lands by bad hnsbahdry. Cot
ton tue first year, corn and clay
Deas the next, followed by a crop
o speckled peas the same year
for fattening hogs, rye in the
7 fall to be plowed in the spring
III fertilizer, wonld be a good
succession.
Is tinefield succession is best.
III 4 small farmer has a field Of
I III acres to cultivate, he might
auallge ii thus: Five acres OF
cotton, 5 acres of corn and clay
beds, j acres of oats, to be fol-
loved Ly speckled peas the same
season, B acres ofsWeetan and irish
potatoes, speckled peas to follow
lid Irish potatoes the same sea
SON, and 5 acres for fodder corn,
sugar cane, pinders, sunf1ower
seed, Jerusalem afticllokes =
aIe last four for chickens and
hogs. proportioning each crop
To die stock to be fed. No two
farmers would Orange these
HeeessiQns alike, but each ac-
sefaing to his own circumstan-
Ses ami wants, This arrange.
mant. with the Furman fertiIi.
zeEs, would raise any poor, Worn
out pine hill farm almost at once
fFen barrenness to fertility, ant
ultimately to good and lasting
AFEility.
n12S2 Rudolf Won Hapsburg
h German Count, who had beer
elected Kaiser Of the Holy 10.
inal Empire iii 1876, took pos.
sessl8ll of the Dnchy. of Austria
antl from him descended the I'M
paEiai family of the Austria
nApife. The 6OOth anniyersar,
n ahls founding Of the house o
hapsbnrg Is soon to be cslebrat.
NJ at Vienna. The male line o
Ihe Hapsburgs died ont in l74t
With Emperor Karl VI, who's.
oaly daughter, Maria Theresa
married. Duke Franz, Of Tus
aaAN or of the house of Lor
falle. Fran him were descend
the present reigning famil.
q ne house IL Hapshnrg-Lor
aiAA.
AZ Az, Westehester. PA.
have q horse that has latel,
uttered from periodical fits 0
@aSsness. Please answer throug1
pAsF valuable paper and let III
aess What / should do for hin
ll afraid he will get worse ]
aaaREhlng is not done soon.
9'R advice, based on a careful
al of Every Man His Ow
Doctor. wonld be fo fax