The record-union., 1892-03-26

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i planted like grapevine cuttings
Now these two-teet paths can be kept
] open and used for cultivation, or, after
/ the four-foot beds have become solid. can
] be allowed TO spread full
L advise this plan as a tour-foot bed can
| be grown solid thick sooner than six feet
and after that can be easily extended
i When roots become plentiful and cheap
! you can plant thicllly all over the ground
at first planting, if you choose, but with
roots S. piece, as at first in New Orleans,
| 1t could not be afforded. Although one
| planting lasts for a lifetime it is sup
posed that five cents would be high, but
| two or three cents is reasonable, and
81 So per thousand is very reasonable,
delivered in good order, the purchaser
/ running no risk in shipping at all. Two
| thousand five hundred, six feet by
three apart, or 500, six feet by one apart,
makes the first cost enough on large
scale, and with layering and cuttings will
| soon cover the beds.
| If planted this spring scattering crop
can be cut in the fall from the layers, and
| the next season three or four fair crops
can be expected, and the next year your
most sanguine hopes ought to be realized.
Anyone purchasing larger amounts, or
! where possible, can have my personal at
tentlon as to soil, preparation and care,
Will contract to buy all you will
raise from roots purchased Of me, for five
or ten years, at cents a pound, in bales
| delivered in San Francisco, Los Angeles.
San Bernardino, Sacramento, Tulare or
! bakersfield, Cal; Ell Paso, Dallas or Gal
weston, IeN.; New Orleans. La; or Mo-
! bile, Ala; Atlanta, Ga; or jacksonville,
! Fla; Salem, Or; or Seattle, Wash | will
/ also agree 20 furnish decOrticatorS at
| reasonable cost; now 500 TO $500 for two
acres day, and give freely al necessary
information and assistance possible per-
! sonally; deposit forfeit OF SOC, 600 for
every 1000 acres planted from roots pur-
chased from me and paid for, or leave that
amount approved, due on the same at s
! per cent. interestand accept notes payable
IN fIber: build mandatory and buy your
| crop Tor five or ten years at cents q
| pound, paving cash 80 days for the same,
! each crop delivered as above
Ramle is not nOXiOuS weed, does not
! spread over the country by seed, is not
hard to eradicate, dies with drought,
| Hood, or plowlng out to sell the roots or
replant. AS to its injury or drain on the
| SOIL must say that has been over esti-
mated, AS the comparisons have been
/ made with grain and fruit that grow and
ripen, grain, wood, fruit, seed or pits,
which makes the greater drain and from
! the surface. The rlpening OF seed or pits,
! hardening OF stem or wood, is much more
exhaustive of the soil than the first or
green part Of the growth. Ramie should
| be compared with alfalfa more properly,
but has some very important advantages
over that also. While alfalfa roots deep
ana draws It's substance not mainly from
] the surface, but deep down in the subsoii
and TAR into subterrauean depths for
! moisture, 1t does not materially exhaust
the surface, though in cutting green it is
all removed, stalk, leaves and all sold or
used, hardly, if ever, returned even in
manure II fed on the place; yet if ripened
hnI tc tf,ne
While with ramie the roots also go down
deep, not only one tap root, but many,
each stalk supplying its own, every Joint
or piece supplying them if detached from
the mother roots. Ramie is always prop
/ erly cut green, all the leaves, about two
tltths of the whole weight, being stripped
and left on the field; the wood and Juice
is separated and burned in dryers, and
the ashes can be returned with little
| trouble, SO that nothing but the pure fiber
need be taken permanently away.
Now II an old overgrOwn stalk should
! be cut, weighed and burned to estimate
! the loss, the result multiplied bv the
number supposed to be on an acre. it
might be that fifty tons per acre. might
be estimated, which would give yelv
| erroneous impression from the real facts
! l think the leaves and wood being re-
| turned might add to the soil, together
! with irrigation and the air, all, or nearly
| ctIis lOiitONCN III lIiG IlDGE, anu DOSSlDIV
| more III some cases at least. Something
is taken from the airyand water, and more
! brought up from the subSoil, or below
| AT any rate, / have seen as fine stalks on
| ten, fifteen and twenty-year- grown
patches Of ranle THAT [ have been told
have not been fertiliZed and not much
watered) as | could wish to raise. About
five tons green stalks can be expected off
an acre each cutting, making a thousand
| or more pounds OF fiber, or three to four
! thousand pounds in season of three or
! four cuts.
RamIe fiber must not be bleached be-
| fore used IN the factory, as it needs differ
ent treatment for different uses, and YOU
must not be deceived by long. fine
! bleached or unbleached samples, as there
| Is no practcability III them Ranie is
not ungummed If long. and cannot be
used in that condition except by hand
and then must be prepared, while green
and fresh, by hand. We want no hand
work, and cannot compete with foreion
labor in that way So do not be deceiyed
J by gaudy showings.
Bales OF 1t have been made and shipDed
! from the South, twelve to twenty wears
ago, and found unstable for profit to
! this country, and spoiled for their uses
IN Europe, by hand or otherwise. We
| want plain, practical working material.
1t must be thoroughly and economic
ally ungummed, and then it is as free and
pure as wool, cancels hair or alDara and
cut to even lengths, or separated into two
four and six-inch lengths, will card and
| spin as readily by machinery, and if
! properly done is full of strength and
gloss. The farmer, except for curiosity
or satisfaction. does not need to be a
manufacturing expert to pass on the
machinery or fiber. He simply, neces-
sarily wants to be satisfied that he can
put into bales and sell the raw material
and roots maybe, enough for several
years to pay him for planting. raising
and marketing, as well or better than
1 anything else he can raise, and that he
will get a better market for his other
products, and be able to buy a superior
article of goods for less money than IS
possible without it. If he can make $50
or $40 per acre on large number of
| acres for several or many years, and
never less than $50 clear, or double or
! quadruple his market, and that at home
| instead of the chances abroad; get his
goods for less than half or one-fourth of
| the price he now pays; get a genuine,
! durable article that will wear four times
| the length of time the adulterated article
he now pays a big price for, builds up his
country, makes his property valuable, |
think it is worth little effort and faith,
even if there is good deal of work, and
may be some few mishaps TO start with.
). IL. SLAUGHT.
San Francisco, Feb. 26 1892.
Mrs. Logan's "Home Magazine" and the
weekly Union"