The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-19
BY WILL T STEPHAN.

ing with his lands. All who come. and their name Is legion, are well. repaid for the trip. When you get of the train at Tuckabatchie. where the feet of Desoto once trod, you find carriages. huggies and wagons waiting to carry you through the hundred acre field. And such cotton! The rows are six feet apart and the stalks from two to two and half feet in the drill and the limbs are locked in the rows. wealth of bloom greets the eye, but you mus get down and separate the foliage before you can really tell that in all of this sea of red and white and green, there Is the hidden wealth that has made the South such an important sec ton to the worlds commerce.
 All about me heard exclamations Of delight and surprise from men who have spent their lives tiliing the soat and among them were many of the fancy farmers of the State. Many said that they had seen small patches of cotton that would compare with this. but never before one hundred acres, Tn one body. that would approach 1t.
 If there Is anything in the world that will equal an old fashioned harbe- cue for good things, wish you would tell me about it. William K. Jones. better known in Montgomery as Trap per Jones' cooked this barbecue and II Is not necessary to say that he cooked it to the "Queen's-taste" There was to start with, tomatoes and peppers, and onions cut up together. and then potato salad and then mutton and pork and beef and many other good things. Mir. sistrunk Talks.
 After we had feasted until we could feast no more. Mfr. sistrunk talked of
 "Between farmers" he said, there should always be q bond of fellow feel 1 ing, and always a helping hand extend ] ed to further the cause of agriculture. To those of us who make our cnief pro @ duet cotton and corn. nothing Is so im- { portant as getting together and ex- changing ideas along lines that have proven most successful, and to give encouragement to the beginner Also, to point out from actual exPerienee the erors some are steadily making each year
 Tt does seem that as you judge a cagfghter by his chips that farmer should be Estimated by his crop. If he has demonstrated that he can make two blades of grass grew where one grew before then his method should be studied and if possible inn- proved upon. My method stands out in bold relief and think it's impor- tance should not be underestimated.
 'Tf he wishes to do so. 1t comes
  farmer whose lands are old and worn out, to follow this plan for reclaiminE them. I mean simply by the use of green cotton seed as a permanent fer tilizer with acid phosphate. This Is no new idea, thousands are using their seed in this way but alas, there are tens of thousands who do not. and who continue to buy guano and cotton seed meal each year while their lands are ! I. ca nf XcUaf1hlp matter. Every farmer knows that the guano he buys does not contain one particle of vegetable matter. yet 1t is the rule to sell the seed which contains the very vegetable matter he needs. Do not understand me to say that there is no money made by buying Cudno, etc., for it does pay; what wish 10 use green cotton seed with the propor- ton of one hundred pounds of a3'd phosphate to every ten bushels or cotton seed.
 aBy doing this you get the full value of the fertilizer contained in the seed, as we'll as the vegetable matter contained in the hulls, which we know are rich in potash, to say nothing oi i the mulch to hold moisture m dry sea- sons Chemists tell us that cotton Seed will yield to the hundred pounds 1 Ammonia 3S0 per cent; phosphoric ac- ! i'd l.27 per cent; potash III pei cent. so it is easy to figure out ln tni' l ratio the total of valuable rertiilzers l contained in a ton of seed in their raw state, or before they have been cock ed to set the oil and meal
 Building up Lands.
 Y .sWe are told also that the hulli 1 alone contain in each one hundred | pounds: Ammonia 0.s3; phosphoric ac I i'd 025; potash 1.02. glance at thes' I figures will not fall. ct show with wha 1 high esteem we should hold greer l cotton seed, and a farmer should con sider we'll before selling them. Hav a little pity for the poor worn ou Hands that are famishing for yegeta lbIe matter-the very kind furnishe' by cotton seed so bountifully, "
 must quit robbing our lands IT we Wisl
 to build them up. At the least. pu hack the seed taken off the land eacl
 year. All poor lands need Vegetapl matter lots of 1t, and the more lp better. The question Is, how IS Una
 want to be supplied? In my optnion Icent stable manure As to the latter 1t is an ifnpossibility to get more ,ror our stables than will suffice for a tel
 acres--one acre to each horse or mai
 is d very liberal estimate as to wha can be produced even after haulinl lstraw and leaves to help the natura I increase. I never have enough to 2 I beyond Keeping rich a few acres nea
 the lot
 "Now I want to say word abou 1.-the one hundred acres you have seel
 this morning. Just six years ago
 moved to my present home and toun
 this field was almost too poor sprout COW peas, as the saying goes
 But 1t had a good clay foundation an
 I starred to work at once to make blossom as the rose. At first, use
 about twenty-five bushels of gree
 cotton seed per acre with two hundre land fifty pounds of phosphate. Fac
 subsequent year, continued the use llittle more seed and phosphate, an this year l have reached the poin
 where sixty bush&g of seed an