The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1886-12-11

which is as fine as that produced
IN any country fer stoeki Have
we not heard all of our lives that
it costs only the salt to raise cat.
tie here 7
BY careful experiments carried
on in many places in the North it
is found impossible to increase
the weight of cattle fattened for
slaughter for less than Al cents
per pound for the additional
weight, and it generally costs
much more. Experiments con.
Quoted with great care by Prof.
Gulley at your Agricultural Col
lege show that We can produce
that additional weight in cattle
that are being fattened at a cost
of not exceeding 8 cts. per pound
and for less. Thus we see that a
difference of from one cent to
three cents or more per pound
constitutes the Advantage in cost
of production of feet that the
Southern stock feeder has over
his Northern brother for the time
that it is necessary to feed in the
South, which we must also remem
ber is much shorter than 1t is
North.
This | think is the most profit
able way to utilize the cotton
seed. The farmer who thus uses
his seed gets its value as a food
stuff aud also u large part of its
value as fertilizer if the manure
is applied to his land. The stock
leaving this manure scattered over
the land cause it to recuperate,
and under this treatment its fer
tihty may be preserved almost in.
definitely, and still the farmer be
making out of his cotton seed four
or five times as much as he now
receives if he sells it.
This tends to bring about nee
essary changes in the present sys-
tenn ofagriculture and leads direct.
ly to diversified farming by the in
PRODUCTION Of stock growing, and
the preservation of forage crops
which will gradually reduce the
expense of labor upon the farm
as Its necessity diminishes, and
will correspondingly increase the
profits upon the farm. 1t is the
cost of the labor by the present
system that consumes our crops.
The Yazoo Delta here is and no
doubt will continue to be the
richest cotton lands of the South,
and so long as cotton alone or
cotton and corn pay well no ne.
cessity may be manifest for at.
tempting extensively to employ
this second and best method Of
utilizing cotton seed. But where
the necessity of diversified farm.
ing is felt, | commend it to consid.
Grafton. Its application is general
but its necessity is perhaps not yet
appreciably telt in this region of
the State.
/ fail. however, to find any ex.
cuse for our farmers continuing to
sacrifice their cotton seed instead
of using it as a fertilizer. 1t can
be applied to corn land and digest
ed by the action of the corn, as.
sisted by the COW peas planted
with the corn and followed by cot
ton. This treatment will stop the
waste, and if repeated at regular
and short intervals will gradually
improve the productiveness of
the land. Why, the extensive use
of the COW pea alone is sufficient
to do this if managed with care.
In sections where clover will grow
it is to be preferred, but a ton of
pea vines containing seven pounds
of peas when plowed under is
equal to crop of one ton of clover
plowed under upon the same area.
Time will not permit me to elab.
crate the many and excellent
means at command for the i'm
provement of the soil by the utili.
zation of the wastes of the farm.
Let our farmers take advantage of
the Investigations of science as
manufacturers do, avoid mistakes
like that indicated in what has
been said, give more careful atten.
ton to business and understand it
better, and | think much of the
trouble will disappear. If there
be any logic to be placed in the
logic of figures if there be any
valuable deductions to be drawn
from the study of the cotton seed
problem; if there be any advan.
tage to the farmer in the preser.
yation and increase of the fertility
of his soil if there be any security
to him who engages in diversified
farming; if there be any benefit to
be derived from a rotation OF