St. Landry democrat., 1889-02-23
Cotton Seed.
TERRAC1NES LOG GROWING.

Cotton seed il en aI INC nnmsIaa cheapest
manure that the armer can use.
So why sell yourcsn ne lie nilhd when crushed
and used with lot / than tNere is no bet
ter or cheaper fertilizer, md even with
this compost acids or phosrhates render
them still more efficacious. Selling your
cotton seed, even at fifteen and twenty
five cents a bushel, and replacing them
with ex pensive, doubtful commercial man
ures, is poor economy, especially when
YOU risk the chances of exchanging seed,
which you know to be good fertilizer,
for an article which is of doubtful utility.
The oil of the cotton seed is becoming in
great demand for manufacturing lard.
That should not concern the farmers, for
they should raise their own hogs and make
their own meat and lard, and then they
will have lard which they know to be
pure and good, and if they have more
than they need, they can sell it and supply
others with lard they know to be pure and
good aud get good price for IL. This
process would be more advantageous and
prof table to the farmers than selling their
seed at low prices and buying their fer
tilizers at high prices In summing it up,
it may be put down as penny-wlse and
pound foolish transaction on the part of
the farmer, when taking into considera-
ton the uses that cotton seed are fit for !:
first as a fertilizer, then as food for cattle,
and then for lubricating oil, and also for
lard Why, fifteen or twenty-five cents
bushel is not half its value. lt amounts
to almost giving away something for moth
ing when it comes to'exchanging cotton
seed for commercial fertilizers. Who have
made the most money from commercial
fertilizers, the manufacturers or the farm
ers? Most certainly the manufacturers.
The manufacturers have become rich at it,
while the farm ers-the best or most sue
cessful among them-have barely held
their own.
A vast majority, no doubt, were loosers
by it. Let facts speak for themselves. L
wager that farming will pay better If a
farmer will hold on to his cotton seed and
compost them with his lot manure, and
rotate his crops and turn under vegetable
matter to decompose in the land than by
selling his cotton seed and buying ferti-
lizers. The great mistake that farmers
have made since the war has been in buy
ing for their farms so many things that
they should have made themselves. The
out 90 far exceeded their income, and that
has been the great error and trouble with
them, and still continues to some extent.
Winter is upon US, and what should be
the first work of the winter? With those
who have not terraced their farms yet, let
terracing be their first work-be sure and
terrace and save your lands. And those
who have terraced, overhaul your terraces,
and where there are any defects repair
them. The day for washing and outlying
farms should be no more when they can
be saved at so little cost and labor. In
February SOW oats and SOW largely; de-
crease as much the cultivatable crops, clio
yer and grass. A spontaneous hay crop
was made in North Georgia last fall from
crab grass by the late summer rains that
was abundant and valuable. On some
farms, where storms and droughts dam
aged the corn crops, the hay saved was
twice the value of the corn, and no hay l
have seen made from the sown grasses is
superior in quality to crab grass hay:
The crab grass seed should be sown, and
sown as other grasses are, for there is NJ no
hay more valuable.-Cor. Soathern CatIts-
Gator.