The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1893-07-07
HOME AND FARM.
BIG CROPS ON PINE LAND.


A Meridian News correspondent
reports an interview which be re
Gently held with q farmer nance
Bounds, living near Vossburg. Th,
following extracts will be ofinteresE
"Mr. Bounds, are you engaged II
the cultivation of pine land exclu
sively ?"
Eyes. / have no other in cult
vation, and do not wish to cultivate
any other, as pine soil is, in my
judgment, preferableto any land il
the state. +"
"Why have you formed this
opinion ?"
"For several reasons. /. It does
not overflow. 2. 1t is not necessary
to spend money for bitches, as buI
little drainage is required. 3. It Il
usually level and does not wash
away. 4. II is not so easily affect
ed by drought as other soils, and
such thing as total failure from
this cause is unknown. 5. II Yields
a better return for fertilizing than
any soil known to me.
81 selected a single acre two
years ago and took special pains
with il. / used more fertilizer on
it than usual, cultivated very well,
and gathered three bales of cotton
weighing 458 pounds each.
81 planted corn last year on the
same acre on which ! grew the three
bales Of cotton the year before. !
used only a small quantity of cotton
seed as fertilizer and gathered sixty
bushels from the single acre."
"Do you think that with judicious
fertilizing it would be safe TO count
on an average of a bale of cotton
and thirty-fve bushels Of corn per
acre ?"
81 think the time will come when
we shall have an average far above
those figures"
"Does this soil make as good
showing when planted in oats, mel
ons, fruits and vegetables p
eyes. 1t will grow either Of the
above fully as well rs it will corn
and cotton"
NEW MODE OF COTTON CULTURE.
Warmer f. M. Logue, OF Warren
county, is thus reported in the
Vicksburg Herald:
81 have been growing cotton in
Bermuda turf for two years and the
results have exceeded my most san
guine expectations. Under both
favorable and unfavorable condi-
tions the results have been surpris-
ing. Where the sol was most ia
yorable to the growth of cotton the |
plants now measure four feet in |
height and as much through the
branches, and have on them from
go to 20 fine bolls, forms aud bios
SONS, and are growing IN height at
least two inches day. This cot
ton is growing in very stiff turf
which now has a fine crop of hay
On it, and is formed from the ground
up. Some of the limbs hang on the
ground with as many as 8 and 10
blossoms on them. The other cot
son in a less favorable situation is
ioing almost as well.
"a furrow is run in the turf with
/ pillow made for the purpose which
makes a clean place six or eight
inches wide for planting the seed.
When the cotton is scraped out and
'ut to a stand, the grass in the mid
lies is cut at the same time and is
wept into this clean iurrow, be-
ween and around the cotton. This
prevents anything from coming up
lear the cotton. After this the
.rass in the middle is cut and the
lay saved. This accounts for the
ich growth and productiyeness Of
he plant, since the dirt is not taken
rom the roots, as in the old way,
nd the moisture from the dew is
etained, frequently being found in
he grass as late in the day as ]
j. IN. {"
The Herald adds
"Cotton men of experience say
hat If the results achieved by Mr..
.ogue can be generally obtained ,
hey will occasion complete revo- .
uiion in the culture of cotton, as
he hay alone would nearly, if not
!uite, pay the entire cost Of cult