The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1891-01-17
FARMER AND PLANTER.
EXPERIMENT STATIONS.

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sgcous fortune, or to take arms agains\
them.' opposing
"niie my grievances are in no wav
IKE Hamlets." still the above so,ilo.
Guy has OF late often come up in NV
End when reading the reports of our
Recommendations in the South. These
stations have been OF inestimsble valuo
70 me. and the whole South, in some OF
their reports
but their testing the different yarie-
Ties OF cotton is certainly mixed,
no.ey business that Is doing
macn oarm, and the idea CT test
ing improved seeds with the scrub
~oex seems to me very unscien-
inc and beyond doubt will every time
snow up tbe scrub seed or those nearest
10 2 serab. as earliest most prolific,
"est Quality Of lint, etc, because inn
pro, ed seed were not prod uced by scrub
work nor by physicing. but first. by
sither judicious crossing, or carefully
selecting the fitest Of q certain type for
seed each year for a number of years.
and giving certain routine of work.
'snd improved for certain purposes, the
same as stock. s,~sss ~
Our professors at the experiment sta
lions would boot at the idea OF testing
short-horn cows with Jerseys for but
ter, giving the same feed per COW;
""oid also deride the man who would
Aggest the testing of Jersey with the
hoisteine for flow of milk, each hav-
ing the feed necessary to support the
larger frame of the Holsteine. And
they would call a man q natural
IDIOT that would talk about Jer-
sey steer making the same quality of
Deer as short-horn, both having all
Hhc iced necessary to bring them to
greatest perfection and kept until short
. nrrn was fully grown. Nor would they,
IN their reports show the Jersey beef
cost twice as much as the short horn,
because the individual Jersey was one
half as largo as the individual short
horn.
On the same score, does it look reason
able that the little early varieties of
northern corn with stalk five feet high
three-quarters OF an inch in diameter
would require the same number OF
square feet per stalk as the largest
Southern varieties with their 10 to 1o
feet high stalks to inches in diameter,
or giving the same distance to the "old
mans pea or pea Of the backwoods"
they would to the whey unknown pea"
or the six weeks bunch bean the same
as the pole bean; or the little 12-inch
Tom Thumb pea vino the same space rs
the late to feet high varieties
These comparisons are no more err
roneous than the way the tests Ct vari-
'eties OF cotton at our experiment sta
'tions.) We would not expect the Berk-
shire, Essex or Yorkshire hogs to make
as much pork as RED Jersey" Ches-
ter White or Pollen China; but we would
expect them to make about tvo-thirds
as much at less than half the cost and
in two-thirds the time. Because we can
have our pigs dropped in March, and
kill them in December fully matured
We get the full benefit&of the grass,
most peas, potatoes, etc~ and the hog
does his own harvesting. without hav-
ing to tide over a single winter. This
explains to fraction the difference be-
tween the varieties that have been i'm
proved to make before drought and
worms appear and those that have been
improved to stand them. All cluster
varieties can be made ANIMALS by
pinching of the top and the two
to four side shoots about the time |
the early summer rains are over,
which is from 9Th to 18th OF July in |
northern portion of cotton belt but ear !
lier as we go south. The richer the |
aland the quicker they will come through |
il the land Is prepared and cultivated |!
according to natural laws. This can
only be done by deep winter blowing
and shallow spring and summer cultiva-
tion. This puts the soil and subsoil as
in the woods; loose, non-capillary soil,
with Arm lbut not hardy capillary sub |
soil II the land is broken in the spring |
we have non-capillary su osoiL This
causes the roots to have to start out SO |
deep that the plant gets of very slow.
except we physic the soil. II we wait |
until spring before blowing, and then |
pillow shallow, the effect on the soils will |
be the Same IS where drastic doses Of |
anti-fat acid phosphate is used. The |
fertility Of the surface and the capillary |
or natural fnnctiors of the subsoil will |
soon be seriously impaired. While
the reverse effects will be seen by |
the winter breaking process, and let |
nature furnish the 'sbase" except where |
we pillow under vegetable matter. where \
nature has mixed in proper proportions,
this anti-fat will prove detrimental to
any profile variety Of cotton, because to
be prolific the fruiting should be COM
pact on the stalk and foliage scant
Such . plant would produce little shade.
therefore would gather very littlo of
the active elements Of plant food from
the atmosphere; and such plats as do
not shade the soil will be dispropor-
toned blythe use Of hosphates-except
the soil has excess OF undecopposed
vegetable matter. But where plants