Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1905-01-14
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ANALYSIS OF COTTON SEED.
Important and Interesting Deduc-
lions of State Chemist.
DovEp1LE, Ga, Maroh !.

10 Commissioner or Agriculture Ats
lanra, Ga:
DEAR StE-Will you kindly tell Sno
the number of pounds of nitrogen, phos-
phOric acid and potash contained in .
ton of cotton seed, and in tom Of cot
ton seed meal and the price of same per
ton. I want to know ii a farmer can
afford to sell seed at % cents per pound
and buy meal at $22 per ton and haul
each 8 miles, Colonel Redding says
''the farmer who uses cotton seed az q
fertilizer is acting very much against
his own interest" want to do soma
figuring for myself. Yours truly,
j. d. MYRIcK.
ATLANTA, March 3. 1900.
To Mr.. J. D. Myrick; Dovedale. Ga:
DEAR SIR-Your letter Of March
received. The state chemist informs :
me that ton Of cotton seed on an ~.
erage contains
g. lbs. nitrogen at 1870 per II. 49,. % 81
1854 lbs. phos. acid at SIC per lib. .s... 50
1874 lbs. potash at 41l4c per lb......... %
$40 10
Also that ton of cotton seed meal
contains:
1856 lbs. nitrogen at 1884, per Id. ....$18 10
576 lbs. phos. acid at SIC per lb.... 0S
1914 lbs. potash at 4Ic per lb........ l oO
Total valuation ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. .S21 65
In other words. ton Of meal 10 worth
for manurial value alone $1158, ton
more than ton of seed. At % cents
per bushel, counting 81 bushels to
ton, your seed will bring you $147A
ton, leaving $4.62. which the manu-
facturer has paid you for the oil over
and above the value of the fertilizing
elements, or at the rate Of III cents o
gallon for the oil before it is pressed.
The oil has no fertilizing value what.
ever, and in point Of fact is drawback.
retarding the decomposition of the seed
in the soil and rendering the manurial
matter in them less available. Now IL
you are wise you will buy meal on that
basis; buy your own acid and potash
and mix them according to this formula:
Muriate of potash ........... 20 pounds
Acid phosphate. .............. Isl pounds
Cottonseed meal, ............. 2oO pounds
4OUeAsss wa PO0A0o
Or if you desire use 100 pounds of KANT
in place of 20 pounds of muriate Of pot
ash. Some very successful farmers do
not think that too much to use per acre;
if you think it extravagant, use as much
as your judgment and circumstances
will authorize. You would be still wiser
if you keep stock to feed the cotton.
seed meal to them and carefully save
oil the manure, liquid and solid; and
probably the best way to do this 10 by
penning the cattle on the land to be
MANFRED until you figure that You have
fed them about 300 pounds Of meal peg
acre. and then move your pen to fresh
ground. Then when you come to plant
this piece of ground in cotton, put on 2OO
or 300 pounds Of acid phosphate and 20
pounds of muriate or 600 pounds kanit) /
per acre, the ammonia having ALREADY
been put on by the cattle. In this way
you will not lose over 10 per cent of the
fertilizing matter in the meal, and you
will get all the flesh forming and fat
forming matter Of your cossonseed meal
converted into beef, butter and milk.
Depend upon it my friend, this Is the
'royal road" to wealth and prosperity
for the southern farmer, and those who
keep in the "middle of the road" will
get there first and quickest.
STATE AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT.