The Bossier banner., 1892-03-10
FARMER AND PLANTER.
COTTON RAISING.
A New PlaH Suggested BY i Practical
GeorGia Planter.


papers, and during these many years of
strife and oppression of the agricultural
interests have ever been in the fore
front in urging our southern people to
raise less cotton, and more provision
and better stock. AS before stated,
having spent many years in trying to
better the condition of our agricultural
classes; and raise them to that high
and noble plane which it is their priv
ilege to occupy, and having made this
a special study, / came to the cohclu-
sion that the farmers all over the cotton
growing portion Of these United States
have, and WILL as long as time lasts, raise
all the cotton they possibly can. The
alliance nor the devil can dissuade
them from this course, for they have
gone on from year to year raising cot
ton, to the exclusion of all provision
crops, with mortgaged homes and other
heavy debts hanging over them. and
contracting new debts to be paid with
six or seven cent cotton, when every
intelligent man knows, and will admit,
that under our present system of labor
and agricultural appliances, it costs
more than seven cents per pound to
raise and market this cotton. This
theme has been handled so much that
it is worn perfectly threadbare. Yet,
astounding fact, for true it is. we go on
from year to year raising more cotton,
to buy more mules to raise more cot
ton, and so it will ever be under the
present status of affairs.
T 90 halt
that there is a correct and reasonable
solution to every problem, and claim
to have solved this great problem. Sec
ing that was useless to longer urge our
people to plant less cotton and raise
more supplies, and seeing that the cot
ton producers are growing poorer and
poorer with each succeeding year, set
my wits to work to devise some plan or
means, whereby we can raise all the
cotton we can gather, and at the same
time, raise it at profit. This can be
done by using improved seeds and great
ly reducing the labor necessary in maxi
ing the crop. This / set to work to ac-
complish, and l am happy to say, that
have succeeded far beyond my most
sanguine expectations. In the first
place | have constructed cotton-seed
dropper-a machine that will drop
any number of seed in hills, any
desired distance apart, and it is not any
| more difficult to handle or manage than
any ordinary cotton planter. 1 desire
in this connection to give my experience
in dropping cotton seed in hills: Having
been engaged for the past seven years
in improving and bringing up to high
state of perfection several varieties of
cotton. l have made it a rule to drop
the seed in hills, and I find that they
come up quicker and better, and grow
off much more vigorously and finer,
than when the seed were drilled When
dropped in hills the young plants will
not suffer for hoe work before ample
time to plow over it twice. Planted in
hills hand hoe can hoe twice as much
as when drilled; in fact, a crop can be
made without putting hoe in it, as the
plants can be thinned by hand. hand
can thin out in this way several acres
per day.
Ny inventive genius did not stop
here, for every good farmer knows that
the hoe work is the most expensive,
and the most imperfectly done of any
labor required in making cotton crop.
/, therefore, set to work to obviate this
great expense and trouble, for Cuffy is
memorable and exorbitant in his de-
mands-in ''hoe time"
l have invented an instrument that
will side up and hoe six acres per day.
with one mule and one hand, and will
do the work in much better manner
than it is done at present, and it can
be just as easily managed as a com.
mon plow. Now, let's figure on this
little, for l intend that the uues-
ton shall hereafter be, How much
cotton can gather?" and not, "How
much can l make?" as hereto
fore. Study the following figures care
fully. Bear in mind, that one hand
and mule in one day, will side up, or
bar off, and hoe six acres per day, or
thlrty-six acres per week; so let's take
one weeks work:
Chopping SO acres cotton a 81 per acre a AZ IN
Slolng 90 acres, hands and mules 6
days. Sl5O each day. .......... ..... JS IN
Cost in old way of siding and chopping SO
acres -. ''-.'........ ... "a 90
No" Iuc ne" way.
One hand and mule, 6 days, "a S1.5Oper
udy-..'-...- -.... .-.................S q On
Difference in favor of. new or improved
metnoQ .......,.S & Ak m
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In three plowings and hoeings, we save. .s135 90
NOW with these implements one hand
VIII cultivate lO8 acres and go over
1t every three weeks. . sAa5 m
Or save the enormous sum of over
four hundred dollars on or to the hand
After the first going over the crops, two
additional plow hoes can be attached to
the chopper, and the machine will chop
the row, side up the cotton and plow
out the entire middle, all in one 90: or. in
other words, it will clear one entire row.
drill and middle at go, and one man,
with two mules, will hoe, side up and
plow out the middles of thirty-six acres
per week, and do the same work that
would otherwise require six hoe hands.
hVe plow hands and five mules one
week to accomplish. 1 have no ma
chimes for sale. Expect to soon form n
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