St. Landry democrat., 1890-02-22
Furman's Genuine Formula,

Below we publish the most used and
best formula for farmers general applica-
ton, sent us by Mr.. J. j. Stewart. Mr..
Furman, of Georgia, was the first to dis
cover this compost. The clipping is from
a number of the Southern CultiUat0r in
1885.
"I give you the formula upon which my
compost is made: Take thirty bushels
we'll rotted stable manure or well ro.ted
organic matter, as leaves, muck, etc and
scatter it about three inches thick upon a
piece of ground so situated that water will
not stand upon it, but shed off in every
direction. The thirty bushels will weigh
about nine hundred pounds; take two
hundred pounds of good acid phosphate,
which cost me $22 so per ton, delivered,
making the two hundred pounds cost 1925
and one hundred pounds kainit, which
cost me by the ton $14 90, delivered, or
seventy cents for ore hundred pounds. and
mix the acid phosphate and kainit thor
oughly, then scatter evenly on the manure.
Take next thirty bushels green cotton
seed and distribute evenly over the pile
and wet them thoroughly they will
weigh nine hundred pounds take again
two hundred pounds acid phosphate and
seven hundred pounds kainit, mix, and
spread over the seed ; begin again on the
manure and keep on 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 six weeks when ready
to haul to the field, cut with spade or
pickaxe, square down. and mix as thor
oughly as possible. Now we have thirty
bushels of manure weighing nine hundred
pounds, aud three hundred pounds chem
icais, 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 lay ers com
bined, form the perfect compost. You per
ceive that the weight is 24Oo pounds.
Value at cost is:
80 bu cotton seed 1915 cts. ........ SO IS
400 pounds acid phosphate. ...............4 o. O
200 pounds kainit ........................ IL ~
Stable manure, nominal. 40 -
Total. -........... % W
Or, for 240O pounds, a total value of
50 IS.
This makes practically perfect manure
for cotton ana a splendid application for
| corn. To have perfect manure for cot
ton, we need phosphoric acid, ammonia,
humus, potash, lime, magnesia, soda and
silica. Now my compost contains every
| element needed:
Acid phosphate gives phosphoric acid
and lime.
Stall manure or organic matter gives
ammonia and humus.
Cotton seed gives Ammonia, potash an
humus.
Kainit gives potash, lime, magnes'a and
soda.
Silica is always present in the soil, is
practically in inexhaustible quantities; SO
we have in my compost everything essen
tial supplied. You will readily perceive
in this formula the vast Importance OF
kainit containing, as it does. nearly one
third of it's bulk of salt, it is great con-
servator of moisture. l have found it.
combined with humus, a specific against
rust in cotton, and owing to its contents OF
sulphate of magnesia 1t is invaluable In
the power that it possesses in the compost
heap of fixing the ammonia as sulphsts
and thereby preventing its escape. | re-
gard it's discovery in the DO ON of the
earth at Leopold Hall, in Germany along
with that of the phosphate beds at Charles
ton, which occurred almost STINT aneously,
as the greatest boon that kind Providence
has bestowed upon the agricultural COM
munity in the last century.-EagSe- rye.