The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-09-06
ARCADIA IN SOUTH TEXAS.
Thorouqhncss ia the Cultivation of
the Soil Necessary.
COMPRISING SEA ISLAND COTTON,
Care Necessary In Handling tho Pine
siapis-rhs Organism Of Vegetable
Lifc-Raspberry-B ckberry.


I'm a land OF clear colors and stories,
In region OF shadowless hours,
| w mere earth has Il garment OF slories,
Ana murmur of musical flowers,
| In woods where the autumn uncoVers
The flush of her amorous face,
! BY the waters that listen Tor lovers,
For those ia there place"
That the country Is OF surpsssing beauty
and salubr4ty there is no question. all
| that is lacking Is a little more thorough
ness on the part of Its occupants.
That we are rapidly filling the coun-
try up with the most desirable class of
immigration is also unaues,ioned. and In
= few short years every acre OF land in
| south Texas viii be under cultivation,
either in improved pasturage or IN arabic
land. or orchards and gardens. The in
Production OF crimson clover alfalfa or
| Lucerna clover, timothy and other I'M
proved grasses for pasturase and forage
| VIII or itself Cause the introduction and
| further Improvement or fine stock OF All
| Kinds, and The introduction of Sea Island
cotton, tobacco, flax, canalsre and Other
new crops. In addition to the standard
| crops OF sugar cane cotton. corn, s0r-
shum oats, otc.. already triumphant, VIII
| furnish such variety that our farm
els VIII become necessarily occupied
growing and marketing crops All that 10
now backing is 4 little more thorous hness,
| and TO induce that shoroughness / viii
| today discuss the proper manuring of the
| land.
Before entering upon II l will call at
| tention to the necessity now existing at
| Houston for roller gins for ginning Sea
Island cotton. The crop this season VIII
not be much. but 1t needs 10 be properly
ginned and handled, and IL this is done
| the crop next year may be 100 900 bales.
| The erection ut Houston Heights OF the
| now compress which presses tho cotton
! FnF AA,, x,-4h
| roller gin. tho perfect preparation OF Sea
| Island cotton for shipboard. the result
| VIII therefore be ungfnned Sea Island cot
| Ton VIII I've worth more In proportion than
| lr baled. This condition Will he of great
| benefit to small growers of Sea Island
! cotton; they will be enabled to hiaul 1t to
| this city and find a. market for it ungln-
| ned.
ORGANISM OF VEGETABLE LIFE.
Every farmer and gardener should
know that ninc-tenths OF all vegetable
| life consists OF three elements only
namely, carbon (Which may be illustrated
as the smoke from the chimney, oxygen
! Cthe air wo bresthe). and hydrogen One
water weHrinlO. The remaining one-
! tenth IS a mixture OF phosphorus. potash.
! Limo, magnesia silica sulphur, nitrogen
aud iron and an infinitesimal amount OF
| salt and mercury. These elements all e1-
let in the ground. hut 1t has been found
I that Il requires the ground 10 be stirred
/ to set them free so the plant can absorb
what It wants Of them. II has also been
| found Of advantage to nurse young plants.
by adding to the surface OF tho ground
uinnures containing these elements 50
| the little fellows could suck at them. like
baby sucks Mt tho bottle This. with
| the addition OF tools, and rotation of
| CROPS. Ia called
MANURING THE LAND.
Any land may IN this manner he brought
up to the highest degree of fertility pro-
yided the elmcuts added can not be
! washed away, and the labor bestowed can
! rot he destroyed It Is therefore neces-
| sary in a Hat country 20 bed ~ the land,
! a. Che elements mentioned are largely
salts, which can be carried away 10y over
| flow from heavy rnins,
| of the thirteen elements mentioned the
most Important are potash, phosphorus.
and nitrogen. for no plant can grow in
! The absence Of any one of these, they are
| therefore sooner exhausted than the
others It is therefore important they
! should, In some way or Other, be con-
/ stantlv added to the soil. Now, there
nre three ways of doug this. hrst by
hauling coarse manure, which is known
! by analysis to contain these properties.
( and then spreading II on the land SEQ
| ondly, by purchase Of salts containing
| thcm or OF cotton seed meal. or bone
! dust, and sprinlSling these broadcast in
crops known as producers OF these ele-
iuritv are turned under, or piowcd into
Tho land as green manure
In n nrcyious article called attention 10
the fnct thnf nm acre of cow peas or boans
vas worth 81 in those snetial elements
If turn,d INTO The land and an nnra of
crimson clover was worth $50 or more
n done likewise ono crop of this clover
,,,.ov-n a. ,hs Nov ,e,-sev Itxn.rimontaI
Station Welded on Nav ri G0J7 pounds of
organic matter. gi2 pounds Of nitrogen 81
n,nnde or nbosnhorir acid and 1sGiI
notncs of poiasb inc nitrogen alone ~
worth II cents n ponnd and is fully equal
Ia nm, found in twenty ions of stahlc
rtarmrc
Ia warn, cIimntcs carbon seems tn bo
tbo tnriinr olcu.nt extracted from tho
air anJ HIS * dane by thc leaves OF Inc
plants. CI'hls probably accounts for the
mauQiac,,mro OF coal wh,l NE earth was
nod',r " tHo o, ,,ronon and yaior Giiu,I
ed with the other salts coming up tho
stam Of The plats. and combining. they
produce sugar and starch, and deposit the
same In tho cells of tho plants. A little |
touch Of iron Is necessary, not only for
ap1n,anr Tho r,I1uf hut also for "A sgigt linz |