The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-09-03
About Cotton Seed and Cot .Qn Seed
Meal,

The thoughtful, progressive farmer
nlay always have an interesting problem
to work at, If he 80 d'sires. no more
interesting one is presented than the
proper use of cotton seed. Shall the!
be sold to the mills or used in a raw state
or the farm? What are they worth per
bushel on the farm when judiciously
used? Is the meal worth more than the
quantity of seed required to make it +?
What is She best way TO apply raw seed?
These are few questions which interest
every farmer in the State.
1t is estimated that 100 pounds of
good seed will make 35 pounds of meal
or nine bushels will make 100 pounds OF
meal. 1t will then require Is bushels to
make 200 pounds of meal, the usual
amount to apply to an acre when meal
clone is used. Now, will the Is bushels
of raw seed be worth more than the 200
pounds of neal7 The problem is not
changed by mixing acid phosphate and
kainit with either seed or meal. If the
farmer would exchange 100 bushels Of
seed, 80 pounds to the bushel, for meal:
he would get 220 pounds Of meal, waicb
would be worth s14.G4, at the rate Of
s24.OO ton. That is, he would receive
sl4.64 in meal for his 100 bushels of
seed, or say 16 cents bushel and do the
hauling both ways. The mill would get
the lint, oil and hull for grinding.
There ia q want of information as to
the comparative value of seed and meal.
A few we'll directed experiments would
throw some light on the subject. Let
different farmers try both on corn and
cotton with equal applications of seed
and meal, OF nine bushels of seed TO 100
pounds of meal. Apply at the same time
and in the same way. The seed when
properly applied are valuable manure
The writer saw a piece of red land on
which seed and dissolved bone were used.
Both were applied in limited quantities.
When the seed gave cut there was a
marked difference in the quality of the
cotton. The cotton in the rows which
had an application of about ten bushels
of seed to the acre was as large again as
it was on the land that had no seed.
A farmer may afford to swap his seed
for meal. No one can afford to sell his
seed at IL to 18 cents bushel and then
buy commercial manures on time. The
policy is wrong and will tell against the
man who adopts it every time. There
will always be seed enough for sale to
keep our mills going, for maay tenants
and even landholders will sell their seed
at some price. 1t is we'll that we have a
mill here that will buy these seed and
keep them from being shipped out of the
country. The horse farmer who makes
fifteen bales of cotton has 450 bushels of
seed, for which be could get $3.50 at Is
cents bushel These seed already paid
for and on the farm are worth any three
tons of commercial fertilizer one can
find on the market. BY using these seed
and 20 sacks of some good dissolved bone
at s17.OO ton, this farmer would have q
very valuable manure for 40 acres of fland
and he would have to pay only s34.OO
for his two tons of Dissolved bone.
We would ask the farmers Of the coun-
ty to study this cotton seed question care
fully. It very important one. The
two. horse farmer with his $50 bushels of
cotton seed and 25 loads of good stable
and lot manure and about three tons OF
dissolved bone, which ought not to cost
more than S17.OO cash, will have manure
enough to put on fifty acres of hoed crops.
Such plan will reduce expenses very
much and improve land, at the same
time. If any farmers in the county
have made tests of cotton seed meal and
cotton seed this year, their reports are
desired at this office. What the average
farmer wants to supplement his OWL
knowledge with is the experience Of 9TH
ers.-Spartanburg Spartan.