The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-05-30
FARMER AND PLANTER.
HEAVY COTTON YIELD.

A Georgia Planter TETS How He Made
1899 Pounds of seel Cotton on Ono
Acre.
How did make 1000 pounds of seed
cotton on one acre?
The prize acre of cotton made by me
Is part of field of eight acres, and
has heretofore produced two and one
half bales to the acre, and the eight
acres one year made yield OF three
bales of cotton per acre. 1t is upland;
the original growth oak and hickory
was cleared some fifty or sixty years
ago; soil. red, sandy loan and clay
subsoil; was in corn in 1898 and oats in
1894. l prepared the acre by breaking
deep early in January with two-horse
Dixie pillow. First of April cross plowed
with Boy Dixie plow: opened burrows
across the acre about two feet apart
and about eight inches deep, ana IN
those burrows distributed ] 300 pounda
of compost; listed on this compost with
long steel scooter; then broke it 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 a long scooter
in those burrows as deep as it could be
plowed, mixing the compost with the
soil; bedded on those burrows with
Boy Dixie plow, small mould board,
and planted the acre on the goth OF
April.
| When the cotton first came up, the
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. 1t was plowcd four
times, using short scooter and hee
scrape 90 inches long. The plowings
were at intervals of about fifteen days
Was hoed twice, chopping to stand
two to two and half feet apart, max
ing stand four feet rows and two OF
two and q half in the drill, and plant
in place or hill. Good seasons pre-
vailed until the 3Oth of June, drought
from 3Oth of June until 4th of August
This acre of cotton did not seem tt
suffer very materially during TIT
drought. From August 4th too mucl
rain for cotton until September 18th
causing the cotton to shed or throw OF
some of it's squares. From the 18th o
September, the balance of the season
were good for cotton, giving time TO
maturity of the young fruit.
The compost used was made by TIL
formula: e,l00 pounds cotton seed an
1000 pound acid phosphate and 10
pounds muriate of potash. This wa
manipulated or mixed with hose, an
put layers of this compost abou
eight inches in thickness, and layers c
well decomposed stable manure abou
six or eight inches thick; put TIL
away in pens. In hauling out to tn
field, had dug square down, mixin
ingredients thoroughly.
The cotton seed used or planted
saved or improved by having caref'
hands 90 over the cotton fields and 81
lect the cotton from large and wei
\ developed hollis and bolls having h'
locks. Planted the seed from this
lection in plat Of ground apart fro
the other cotton, and selected agai
from this plat, and planted again tt
next wear, and so on for five year
Now the seed / have from these sele
8 tians are very fine and prolific.
have none for sale this year. l expo
1 to select my seed again this year, ar
I III grow enough to spare my farmir
{ friends.-W. G. Cross, in Southel
Cultivator.