The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-12
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recorded In bulletin No. 120 of the South Carolina Experiment Station. The cake in question came near being ''cake" literally, for 1t was cotton seed meal and huls. On various experiment plots of cotton they used as fertili- ger 145 pounds of cotton seed meal and 5SO pounds of hulls per acre On other plots they used. per acre; COW manure wnich was made from 145 pounds Of cotton seed meal and 500 pounds or hulls and which amounted to 2,7l4 pounds.
 The yield from using the meal and hulls was but 130 pounds of lint per acre while the yield from using the manure was 2l4 pounds Leverage Of two plots). This Is seventy -four pounds more lint per acre from the manure than from the meal and huils The cows ate the "cake" and got the benefit of 1t and made manure from 1t that gave sixty per cent better re- suits as a fertilizer than the equiva- lent of the original meal and hulls. If this Is not eating the cake and hay ing it. too, the writer misinterprets the meaning of the adage.
 The reader may ask how the COW can get her benefit out of it and still leave more than It's original fertilizer value since the manure must, necessa- rily, have less plant food in 1t than the meal and hulls from which 1t was made. Probably the explanation lies in the fact that plant food in manure was more available than in the meal and hulls. Not more of it. but In bet ter condition for the growing plants.
 Such experiments ought to set the farmer to thinking about live stock and their utility as an adjunct to rais- ing cotton. Not only can cotton seed manure, but every kind of grain, feed and forage that is grown on the place can be similarly transformed. Cow peas, peanuts, alfalfa, corn, sorghum, Johnson grass and Bermuda grass can all be made to enrich the farm by feeding to live stock and saving the manure. Legumes, like peas and al- falfa, enrich more than the true grass es, but feeds of all kinds build up the soil when they are passed through cattle, sheep and hogs and applied where they are needed.
 Last week we noted experiments made in Arkansas in which land was greatly improved by grazing 1t and in the South Carolina experiment, just referred to, we see. that about $3 worth of meal and hulls made manure e#ough to increase the yield of lint cotton seventy -four pounds per acre, having a value at ten cents per pound. of $7.40.
 The South needs manure to enrich its old worn out lands. There is no telling how much the yield of every crop would be increased if only live stock were kept in abundance and ma nure saved as 1t should be. Think of the average yield of corn and cotton --see how low it Is. Even Texas, with her virgin soils, averages only about twenty-two bushels of corn per acre whereas it ought to be thirty bushels at the very least; and it would be more than that if there was good supply of manure on every farm. Think of the meal and hulls fed to cattle in the feed lots and the manure from them absolutely wasted. The cotton man ought to be l. terested in manure for the sake of his cotton--for the in. creased yield he would get.
 No soil will stand continued crop ping without returning something to it.
 The only question is, how to return 1t in the best and cheapest manner; and in the light of present day knowl- edege, the cheapest and most effective way to build up soils is to grow grass es and legumes and transform those and all mill products into manure. We are not in the dark in this matter. The effectiveness of the method has been demonstrated.-Farm and Ranch.