St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1896-06-13
| FARMER AND PLANTER.
HEAVY COTTON YIELD.

4 Georgia Planter TA.s NOW He MaAo
1850 Pounds Of Seed Cotton - One
Acre.
How dill make 1859 pounds Of ssed
cotton on one acre?
The prize acre Of cotton made by mo
n part Of field of eight acres. and
has heretofore produced two and one
half bales to the acre, apd the eight
acres one year made q yield OF three
bales Of cotton per acre. It is upland;
the original growth oak and hickory.
was cleared some fifty or sixty years
ago; soil. red. sandy loam and clay
subsoil; was In corn in 1893 and oats In
1894. l prepared the acre by breaking
deep early in January with two-horse
Dixie plow. First Of April cross plowod
with Boy Dixie plow; opened furrows
across the acre about two feet apar:
and about eight inches deep, and in
those burrows distributed !, 800 pounds
of compost; listed on this compost with
long steel scooter; then broke 1t deep
running diagonally across those lists.
Run off rows four feet apart, opening
wide burrows about eight inches deep,
and put 500 pounds of compost in these
rows or burrows. Run long scooter
In those burrows as deep as it could be
plowed. mixing the compost with tho
soil; bedded on those burrows with
Boy Dixie pillow, small mould board,
and planted the acre on the s0th Of
April.
When the cotton first came up. tho
plant did not look as strong and
healthy as thought 1t should. owing
to the cool weather, but when tho
weather became warmer, the cotton
grew off rapidly. It was plowed four
times, using short scooter and heel
scrape 22 inches long. The pl0wings
were at intervals of about fifteen days.
Was hoed twice, choppinR to stand
two to two and o half feet apart, malr-
ing stand four feet rows and two or
two and half in the drill, and plant
In a place or hill. Good seasons pre-
vailed until the 30th of June, drought
from 30th of June until 4th of August.
This acre of cotton did not seem to
suffer very materially during the
drought. From August 9Th too much
rain for cotton until September 18th,
CduSAuX tuC SOttOu W SuCO VI tu1OW VAA
some of it's squares. From the 18th Of
September, the balance of the seasons
were good for cotton, giving time for
maturity of the young fruit.
The compost used was made BY this
formula: ., 100 pounds cotton seed and
1000 pound acid phosphate and 100
pounds muriate Of potash. This was
manipulated or mixed with hose, and
/ put layers of this compost about
eight inches in thickness, and layers of
we'll decomposcd stable manure about
six or eight inches thick; put this
away in pens. In hauling out to the
field, had dug square down, mixing
ingredients thoroughly.
The cotton seed used or planted I
saved or improved by having careful
hands go over the cotton fields and Sc
lect the cotton from large and WELL
developed bolls and bolls having e6vc
locks. Planted the seed from this Sc
lection in plat Of ground apart from
tho other cotton, aud selected again
from this plat, and planted again the
next year, and SO on for I've years.
Now the seed have from these selec-
t;s,,s are very fine and prolific.
have none for sale this year. expect
to select my seed again this year, and
Will grow enough to spare my farming
friends.-W. q. Cross, In Southern
Cultivator.