The Canton times., 1894-08-31

4 ton crop in the last few weeks. sIts
ever thus from early spring until
August with the planter and crot
reporters. They think they ale going
t0 cover the earth with cotton until
this month, the always arbiter OF The
fate of cotton, come with its deadly
blight, and their high-blown prices
ait length breaks under them" How
y MANY farmers ho have been born and
( spent all their lives ON the farm can
tell what meteorological or chemical
causes have produced this change in
the condition of the crop or knows
how to prevent their recurrence,
With stoical indifference they accept
the results year after year and pay
dearly for it. When financial ruin was
staring the French nation and her
wine growers in the face, caused by a
parasitic fungi, attacking and killing
the vinepards, the great chemist Pas
4 teur. with his scientific skill came to
their relief, Investigated and discover
ed the cause, and gave the remedy
Il which destroyed the evil. When and
from whence will our deliverer come?
II is very apparent to the most casual
observer that cotton now on good fresh
lands or bottom lands, full OF humus
w:sch has been well cultivated has
good crop upon them green and grow
ing whilst the old iron clay soils have
stunted growth and rust and dead
spots in cotton and growth has stopped.
Cotton always sheds in August more
or less according to the soil and tliiage.
Il Like child who nurses too freely IL
must reject the surplus beyond the
sewers Of the assimulative organs to
sustain? One cause of this trying
4 period Is that the earth has been stor-
ing heat BY reason of the long days
and short nights for long period,
and becomes intensivelv hot and dry,
and the earth IN its transit brings
us back under the sun. and its rays
are direct, and hotter than the oblique
ones Of our farther distance OF spring.
and the crops except on bottom lands
or those full of dark vegetable manure
which has preserved the moisture ia
h the sub-soil suffer and dry up Mod
crate surface rains do not sustain crops
iike stored moisture because they do
not penetrate 30 deep, and in .heir
evaporation by the sun scaad the cotton
besides being soon dissipated. If fre-
qnent they fill the bloom with water
and cause them to become glued to
the tender bolt and rots and distorts
1t, making it imperfect. If rains are
so frequent and abundant as to thor
Oughly saturate the sub-soil for a long
period they act in similar manner
TO water-sObed lands in the spring,
saturating and rotting the roots and |
turning it yellow for which blowing |
and evaporation is the remedy. Clay
fbeing q retention soil Of moisture |
makes the hill lands denuded of humns |
under moderate conditions, suffer more |
than the bottoms or hill hands full Of |
humus which from their povosity |
absorbs more moisture and protect as |
! multch the roots from the action of |
the sun. Most cotton ON impoverished |
soils is now effected by rust. fungi |
seemingly due to heat and moistures,
hut during certain seasons on certain |
lands occurring from excessive drouth |
These conditions are subjects for
chemical investigation. Surmising the |
result is Of experience and observation, |
il points to those facts, that success |
will attend the farmer who plants an
early maturity variety of cotton on
good land with rapid cultivation to
push it TO full and heavy fruiting be-
fore these accidents of August and |
it's excessive heat or wet condition |
gets in its work or plants long grow
ing drouth resisting variety like the
Peterlxin or Texas storm proof. 1t |
would be wise to plant half the crop
in each, II one fails the other hits,
the best makes good crop and the
other fair one, the average will be
good and safe. We believe however
that cotton should be cultivated (shal-
low however) until the 1st of August.
The boil worm is our worst enemy toi
cotton, usually during moist weather
in summer and is said to be able to
destroy . Gods effort in 4s hours.
Happily he and the caterpillar are not
doing us much harm and contrary to
popular belief are not produced by
wet weather. If the foregoing facts
are true, which must stand until re-
futed, does it not take brains to farm?
Can the man succeed who trusts his
interests to ignorance? II
WHATSOEVER We soweth, that also
ye shall reap This applies with
equal force to seeds as to deeds. II II
you want good crops You must plant
good seed, and to do this you must
either select and save them yourself. ,
or buy from those who do. The prices
asked by improvers of farm seeds ap-
pear high to tine average farmer but |
those who do the improving rarely
reap adequate profits. 1t takes as
much pains and time to produce seeds
Irue to type as it does stock, and such I
IS the indiscriminste admixture that II
axes years to bring either to repro &
luce themselves with unering certain q
'y. Every farmer who wishes to
improve his own seed or keep those 1
,ure be buys, must have little Q
station of his own. He
must 60 into his fields now and selec, 1