The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1899-06-07
70 the Farmers.

The farms of our country enriches
every one but those who work them.
The cotton plant blesses every land
but the one that gave it birth and the
time has come for it to bestow its
birthright nearer home, and the ap~
pearances are that that is going to
be done at no distant day. The time
is nearing for this wandering exile
to return to her native land and wor
ship at the shrine Of her native era
die and unite with her sister indus
tries in fervent prayer to the crea-
tor cf all nature to bless my Home,
Sweet Home" If we will feed our
cotton seed 10 sheep and CATTLE and
get the milk, butter, beef, mutton
and wool, we have the finest market
in the universe for them and at a
profit that no land on earth can ever
pay and no other investment can
ever give. Oar farmers give their
cotton seed away for S12 50 for
hundred bushels and buy guanos and
inferior fertilizers back-that one
hundred bushels of cotton seed is
worth and will bring in beef $4,000
if fed to cattle and sold. If they
are properly stabbed and the compost
saved, that is more valuable than any
ton of guano on the market. Ii
little dry feeds and pastures are
furnished the cotton seed and CON-
post can easily reach $4,000 Of real
gold or si]ver-and for it we have
taken $l2 so. The Gil in the seed
makes them too laxative on the COW
or sheep and should be feed with dry
feeds and pastures and in this way
our worn lands in pastures and some
Of our fine lands in hay or forage
crops pays US very handsomely.
We sell bushel of peas for from
40 to IS cents. II we would put it
on an acre of average land and plow
it under, no FIVE dollars in guapo can
take the place as a fertilizer. Every
little peavire is a first class guano
manufacturer on a small scale and OF
fine quality, much ahead of any
thing We buy. From day to day it
is collecting the fertility from the air
and storing it in our fields for the
masters use next season. O3e bushel
of peas has been known to catch and
house as much ammonia as We can
get out Of 1900 or 400 pounds of
cotton seed meal. but it will need
acid phosphate and potash in some
shape to make it a first class and
perfect manure. These We can get
very cheap, fer it is the ammonia
that costs and nature stands ready
to open her doors and give welcome
to the farmer 10 her unlimited store.
But greater gain will be given if
We cut eff the vine and feed to sheep
and cattle and return the compost to
the lands. The roots and other veg
etable matter makes a large yield to
the field and well repays. Every
bushel of peas are sold at from sl.50
to $500 per bushel that farmer can
SOW on his worn out, tired feds, sim
ply as a re2ovator if they can be no
other profit from them whatever
Corn and peas fed prudently to stock
will return in flesh and fertilizer
S1.O0 to 81 90 per bushel.
The various sacrifices in sheep
bullocks and heifers Of the Hebrew
law made them Of certain sale al
good prices, and rendered those in
dustries very / rye. Sheep and COW:
having the power to convert the
grass and vegetation Of Caapan into
flesh, clothing, milk and money il
such a short time made this historic
land the marvel of antiquity and The
wonder Of the surrounding naticnR