The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-02-12
STOP THE WAsTAcE.
An Expert Tells How Agricultural Re
sources May BE Increased.

Of If7E Who ihtEs
An Expert Tells How Agricultural Re
sources May he Increased.
The wonderful loss to farmers
brought about by the neglect to prop.
erly utilize the resources and to EN-.
ploy knowledge that is considered in
dispensable in other kinds of bust.
ness is one of the causes of depression
in agriculture. This is more particu-
larly the case in the South than else
where, although much has been done
within the past few years to check this
loss. The Southern people are just
beginning to appreciate the advan-
tages of employing their other re-
sources than those of cotton produc.
ton. In the past the South has been
too largely dependent upon the colored
man and the mule. The result has
been, and will continue to be, so long
as they practice one-crop system,
that they will be subject to periods OF
discouraging depression. In other
words, where the farmer put all of his
eggs in one basket and meets with
some accident he is confronted by the
loss of his entire source of support
| until nature has time to produce an
other crop. Should it fail q second
and third time the poor farmer is left
in desperate way. In the South the
| wonderful resources for feeding the
North upon early vegetables have not
been utilized as they can be. There
has been and will continue to be
large wastage of products upon the
farm. most particularly in the failure
to properly utilize cotton seed and its
/ products.
Where favorable terms with the
| cotton seed oil mills can be made 1t Is
we'll enough to sell the excess OF cot
ton seed and either exchange it or buy
cotton seed meal. The intelligent
farmer, with the aid of the experiment
station or the officers of the agricul-
tural college of his State, can readily
figure out whether it is more profita-
BILE to sell and buy or to keep and
feed or use as fertilizer. Ii the far.
mer keeps his cotton seed he should
at once provide for feeding it to
stock. Cheap sheds can be con-
structed to properly protect the cattle
from the cold rains which are so try
ing on stock in the winter, and the
manure carefully preserved in shed
will give the farmer a double profit.
In fact, I might say treble profit.
For in this way, by preserving his
manure in the form of q compost heap
and mixing with it from time to time
some potash and moderate supply o.
phosphate, he would save the profit
charged by dealers in fertilizers ane
secure to himself the profit of the cot
ton seed as a fertilizer and as feee
stuff. Besides this he would be abb.
to utilize the hay which is produced
, In great quantities upon the Southern
: farms and only needs to be harvested
and fed in order to make it profitable
,, The use of kainit in q compost heal
, cannot be too highly recommended, q
! it preserves to the farmer his VALUABLE
) nitrogen and serves as preventive
: waste upon the farm. The addition
c of the acid phosphate makes com
plete manure that is highly satlsfac
tory for all kinds of crops and OF
! almost all kinds of soil. We adyls
! every farmer to do some close figurin
and see if he can afford to sell his col
ton seed at ten dollars ton or ex
4 change it for 725 pounds of cotton see
d meal. It will be one of the most pre-
fitable rainy days work he ever did
: he will calculate oil ofprofits and losse
and carefully study how he could saw
V several dollars per ton By feeding stoc
e and preparing his fertilizers at hom'
q He may find that heis selling his brit
is right for a mess of pottage when
! parts with his cotton seed at prevail
. ing rates. He may ind that he CT
,g save largely by producing more fertl
lie GERS upon the farm and by buying sl'
in ply the potash salts and the acid pho
phate necessary to properly utilize I
IN present wastes. -
Oh Stop the wastes upon the farm. Y
Of lie its products in an economic ma
adj ner. Prevent loss to live stock a.
he fertilizers by exposure to the wealth
it, and cold drenching rains. Avoid
is iudicious sales of valuable farm pl
m ducts and the purchase OF fertilizf
10 that should be saved upon the far
=, Where fertilizers are bought let TIT
~ be supplemented to those produc
on upon the farm, and purchase those
ew gradients necessary to perfect the II
d? tilizer products of the farm. Av'
lst wastage of labor by cultivating
profitable lands and see that all Gu
u, vi waited land is well fertilized.
ne DIR. JOHN A. MYERS,
Ex-Director West Virginia Experim'
Station.