The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-17

from one crop to another is something wonderful as to results.
 Seed are worth, SO 1t is claimed. 90 cents per bushel as manure the first year. 15 cents the second year, and 1-2 the third. If this be true. and do not doubt 1t. then the intrinsic value of the seed is over 50 cents per bushel be- fore 1t becomes exhausted by repeated crops.
 This fact alone Is enough to put any farmer to thinking and it seems to me he should notsbe long in coming to- the conclusion to put back every bushel raised and add more to them |. by buying until he makes his land rich enough to make forty or fifty bushels of seed per acre each year It will not take very long to do this and then he should be as independent as he. could wish to be. As for myself, I am not near satisfied with what have accom- plished by the plan I have been pur- suing. I shall add the com ing year fifteen bushels seed to those I will make per acre this year and put down fifty-ave bushels and 50 pounds phosphate This with the lap over of seed used this year should make one and one-half bales cot ton per acre with ordinary seasons. Indeed, I see no reason whatever why, in the course ,of the next three years. I should not be able to grow two bales per acre and shall be very much disappointed should I fail to do so.
 Farmers in Georgia and South Car olna are doing even better than this and query arises, why can't we do so in Alabama?
 Next year I expect to widen all my rows to six feet and instead of put: ting all my seed in one drill. I will divide them, putting thirty bushels in the row that shall plant and twenty. five bushels in the middle of the wide rows. By putting those in the middles deep in the ground they will not be disturbed by the blowing necessary tc be given the land and 1t will serve to prevent the concentration of too many seed in one drill and am quite sure the plan will bring better re- suits, as the weed will not grow so fast and will put on, more fruit and the roots will find the manure in the middles at the time most needed and hold its fruit better in case of drought.
 I trust that the picture I have drawn of the enormous possibilities of our lands will not be considered as over drawn in the least
 l intend. to make my field an oh- ject lesson during the coming year and I wish to extend to all a cordial invitation to come up and see me and to look over what I have done and be convinced.
 Even yet this field is not unsightly though I have picked most all the cotton. The stalks. are there to show what they have produced and are az finely formed as can be found in thu land. for 1t has always been a hobby with me to have the best seed to be had and to keep them up to the high est standard of improvement. To this end have had two of my most relia- ble and sensible hands engaged in se- lecting seed for several weeks past for my next years planting. This i. done by selecting and picking from all the most prolific stalks and es- pecially those branching out near the ground. No farmer can reach that perfection that he should in growing cotton unless he has tho very best of seed and it is owing to this fact that I have always given the selection of seed such close attention that much of my success as a farmer has come
 A great deal has been written and said about rotation of crops. planting of peas and etc, as a fertilizer. and I agree the plan is good. but "s life is