The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-17
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 think is highly important and should pc oone every other year, as 1t rens oers the land more porous and easy
 or cultivation. then, too, it absorbs
 the water and holds the moisture
 much longer and prevents much wash
 ins or lands from heavy rains. Af-
 ter a heavy rain it was always sur prising to see how land thus treated \ would absorb the water which. with ] out such subsoiling, would have re-
 matned standing in the rows for sew
 eraI days to the detriment of crop. | sWhen the land was thoroughly sub
 soiled, as stated, layed off my rows with an eight-inch straight shovel aud followed in this furro wwith two mules
 hitched to double turn blow, or ! right and left wing on the same stock
 This blow is run as deep as possible as
 the object is to open up wide. deep
 furrow in which to put the green cotton
 seed So as to prevent any germination. Just here I will state I have never us ed
 anything on this field but the green
 seed, phosphate and kainit and l put
 the seed in the ground the very first | work do in commencing the new year,
 so they may rot while the soil is cold. put the seed down by hand first hauling them out and spacing them at ! v PeOPct ofStohCc to put uo"h thc PiOP
 CT number of bushels of seed per acre ! that Is determined upon With cotton sacks filled from these piles it is quite
 easy tn distribute the seed even enough Tor all practical purpose. Of course the seed could be distributed better
 with a distributer, but 1t IS at a time
 when I need every mule for more i'm portant work, preparing corn land, etc. l The hands that put down my seed af-
 forwards do the hoeing of the crop when i the time comes. While the seed are
 being distributed I keep blows follow ing to cover th sm-uslng for that pur- | pose double foot stock on which there | Is right and left wing. small turn 1 shovel which does the work nicely l cLe furrow to the row. After I finish putting down the green seed, I plant corn and get back to my cotton field about the time my neighbors commence | to put down their commercial fertili- gers and then commence to put in my | phosphate and kainit mixed so as to make only ono distribution, This is distributed by hand with guano horns, | so as not to stop my blows. and l put | one hundred pounds phosphate to cve- | ry ten bushels ;eed used per acre, kali nit is put down one hundred pounds to l the acre without regard to seed used. Then the land is bedded out so as to be ready for planting--which Is done about the last of March to middle of April. aeording to warmth and condi- tion of soil In planting l use cotton | planters and the after cultivation of the crop is about like the usual custom. save possibly, the fact that I use large sweeps and scrapes more than the aver age farmer and that I thin all my cot ton to a stand, one stalk to the hill, by hand instead of with hoes. It is not 1 much more trouble and it grows off better as the thinning is done as early es the season permits.
 Having briefly stated how I prepare my land, manure and plant sang. I will now give you about the amount seed and acid phosphate, etc. used each ot the four years I have cultivated the land and the crops produced success fully. This will give you an idea as to how quickly lands respond to good treatment and can be brought up to a raylng basis. 1 ." The first year, I used twenty-five bushels of seed and two hundred and fifty pounds phosphate and one hundred pounds kainit, and I got the astonish- ing yield, forty eight bales, or nearly one-half bale per acre. It had made nearly thirty bales only the previous year. The increase was largely due to the subsoiling. ] have no doubt. The second year I put back all my seed made on the land and added enough to l make thirty bushels per acre, used 3c0 pounds phosphate and one hun | dred pounds kainit. The yield wes sev- | enty-three bales. Third year I put | back my seed on land and added | enough to make thirty five bushels per acre. used three hundred and fifty pounds phosphate and one hundred Il kaipft uhaII nfn one half bales. This year the fourth | I used between forty and forty-flve
 bushels four hundred and fifty pounds | phosphate, very little kainit. My crop | Is not all gathered. but I have already 1 packed one hundred and five bales and
 will get over twenty more. which will | make bale and a quarter average per
 acre. My cotton rows have been grad
 ually widened out each year, as the
 weed grew large, and so commencing | with width of three and one-half feet | they have gradually grown until they | are five and one-half to six feet wide
 the present year and the weed is lock l ing so that I could not plough through them at all
 Now you can readily see that with my rows all six feet another year. the expense of cultivation Is re- duced to a minimum or nearly half the cost when commenced with three and
 a half foot rows. and I could easily cultivate the 100 acres with only three
 mules and just half as many hoe hands
 as formerly.
 When the money value of the seed used to fertiliZe Is considered it looks like the expense Is tremendous. as for l ty-five bushels have sold for about
 SIS. 50 per acre the past season. but the fact that the larger part of the seed
 was made on the land and I did not
 have to buy them and that the value
 Of the land has increased four or five
 times over, there should be no ques-
 tion but what it pays handsomely to
 use them as I have been doing For
 without them how could have brought my field up to it's present condition?
 There Is not the slightest doubt but
 what the green seed and the hulls fur
 nish just such vegetable matter as
 most of our lands need and the potash
 contained in the hulls alone makes a
 sufficiency to supply all that the cotton
 plant requires. So from now on I shall
 leave off the application of kainit en-
 tirely. l feel that it would be like
 killing the goose that laid the golden
 egg" to sell my seed and to attempt
 to bring up my land to a high state
 of fertility by the use of commercial
 fertilizers for 1t is well known that
 they give very little if any permanent
 improvement to the land and exhaust
 themselves in the growing of eacl tcrop.
 The trouble with most all old land.
 is that they are void of humus. and cot