The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-28

Red clover and Cow peas are the agen-
cies through which nitrogen is de2osi ell
10 the soil. and they are the best resto-
rative crops known. says the Rurali=t
Either will bring up WORKOUT soil as
quickly as any kind of CONNIE cial ftrtil-
izer and make it productive in tine The
COW pea is perhaps superior in this re-
gard 10 clover because there are more
tubercles on the roots. Clover nodules or
nitrogen reservoirs are smaller than those
of the COW pea and are not as numerous;
they are about the size Of clover seed.
while frequently COW pea tubercles grow
TO the size Of a robins egg, the aver~ge
size being about THAI of pea.
ii is rather strange that in poor, clayey
soil these nitrogen cells are more nume.-
Gus than in rich soil; it is net stranse,
either If he facts in the case are taxa
into consideration, yet to many this
seems something perhaps a bit If har-
n1onious with the laws of plant growth,
believing that the richer the so the
greater the tubercles. II should be re-
membered that rich soil contains a larse
percentage OF nitrogen; indeed could rot
be called rich unless IL did contain his
important constituency so that when
leguminouS crops or nitrogen restore S,
are planted or sown to such land they
find plant food already present AMI the
bacterial nitrogen gatherers have Moth
ing to do, hence it is that on the roots
of COW peas or clover in rich soil there
are no tubercles or nodules containing
nitrogen, while in clayey or poor soils
the roofs will be very literally supplied
with them. In the latter class of sell
nitrogen is deficient if net absolutely ex-
hausted and the campaign for it begins
at once when clover or cow peas are
sown, depositing il in the little ressr-
voirs.
We ask Ruralist readers to read the
above from Farmers Voice in connection
with the facts in regard to cotton seed
from the Mississippi Experiment Station
There is no soil in the South but can be
made productive and profitable through
these two agencies, cowpeas and cotton
seed, properly utilized. A Holland dairy
man would make money out of cotton,
growing it for the seed alone.
II is possible that the following facts
issued by the Mississippi Experiment Sta
ton, or similar ones, have appeared in
the Southern Ruralist before, but they
should be kept constantly before Southern
farmers who sell their cotton seed for s.
to IS a ton:
''The facts, as demonstrated, are: a A
pound of cotton seed has greater value
for feeding cattle than pound of corn;
~ a pound of cotton seed meal has a
feeding value about equal to two pounds
of corn: 80 that at least So per cent. of
the fertilizing Ingredients in the feeds is
excreted by the animals fed, and may be
recovered in the manure; "a that nearly
half of the fertilizing ingredients excreted
is found in the urine; (5) that both COT
ton seed and cotton seed meal may consti-
tute a very important pare of the grain
feed of cattle without injury to their
health Co that cotton seed and cotton seed
meal. when fed to dairy cows in proper
quantity and properly combined with
other feeds, do not injure the qualify of
either milk or butter.
with corn at 40 cents per bushel
(about the average price in this state), a
ton of cotton seed is worth $1670 as a
feed for either beef cattle or dairy cat
tie.
Including the manure a ton of cotton
seed has a value to the farmer of S25.79.
lin a similar way we find the feeding
value of ton of cottonseed meal to be
S2356 and the manure to be worth $19.
for every ton of meal consumed, making
a total value of s47.6s that farmer might
derive per ton by first feeding the meal
TO cattle and apply the manure to his
land"
This is a leak on most cotton-growing
farms in the South that should be stop
/ ned IA once