The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-05-18
FARMING IN
THE SOUTH
PLANS FOR A COTTON CROP.
Formulas for FertiIizing, Three-rear
Crop Rotation.

AL have been growing tobacco for
some wears and not very much cotton,
will give my plans for the present
year, as l am going to leave OH W
bacco and increase my cotton crop
NV land is sandy loan to very
deem sand, the clay being from two
feet to five feet from top OF the
py,und. The better of the land was
in cotton last year and the poorer III
wheat. followed by peas, part OF tne
meas being moved off. ! intend using
farm manures on the part that was
| in cotton last year, raising ABOUT hity
bushels of stable manure or two nun
dred bushels of barnyard manure per
| acre. drilled in with Lindsay manure
! drill.
| intend buying the material anu
| mixing my fertilizer, using at the
rate OF 200 pounds of 16 per cent ACID
phosphate, 80 pounds of fifty per cent
muriate of potash and 100 POUNDS Oh
cottonseed meal and so pounds Oh nj
trate of soda not later than the nrst
of June per acre, as far as the farm
manures go.
On the pea fallow / intend using
the same amount of acid, murlate OIL
notash and cottonseed meal. i IN
tend conducting an experiment on the
land where the peas were moved OH
and where they were not, to ascertain
whether or not there is any more am
monia needed. This land is very thin
+ hut made a good crop of peavines by
using 200 pounds 16 per cent acid, Az
e mounds muriate of potash, ana Ii
q mounds nitrate of soda per acre inns
l. land had nos been making peas well
u so / decided to use ammonia LOT 'hs
l. meas and it seemed ID have goo'
d effect. but would not use the ammo
$, MIA on average land. =,
I have broken the pea fallow VIII
II a two-horse plow from seven 10 eisn
d inches deep. l will harrow the IAN
N with an Acme harrow in March; the
AZ lay off nv three and one-half zee
lie apart, then put in my manure ana lis
on it so as to have low, nat ped
as TO plant on a level. / will first ru
= over the cotton with sectional wee'
he or or with a King chopper-weeder tina
in have lust ordered. The cultivauo
ch afterwards will be with Planet Jul
a Tor cultivator once to every midd
lie about every ten days. 1t should
te. gone over as soon after rain as po
sibe to destroy all weeds ana graz
and also to break the crust that III
w. formed. l endeavored to cultivate
re-. nearly on a level as possible, hem
three and one-half feet rows are
la narrow as I can cultivate to best q
vantage. For very good lana ID
Oh grows a rank weed the rows shou
be four feet wide.
It is not considered good farmi
to plant cotton after cotton, out
land I will follow with cotton is
ep. dunghill and near the barnyard.
or the use of barnyard manure we c
keep up the humus in the SOIL whl
full is SO essential to growing good co
more especially cotton. l propose
follow the cotton with rye In Septe
Der, put in with small hose to fial
Jr. cultivator, going one time TO
air. row. This rye will make good 81
,ew ing for stock through the winter,
in. tain the plant food in the land
t IL furnish a gooo coa. v.
airs under in spring-this land to be pl;
ed in corn next year. MANFRED v
bfte BARNARD manure and fertilized
/, m about the same mixture as the cot
the except l plan to use a part OF the
moe tilizer at laying-by, the nitrogen
Won ing in the form of nitrate OF 81
can BY manuring corn heavily l nope
GROW a good crop or pea vines to
nish plant food for the crop OF WI
and oats to follow the corn the
wear. the small grain to be folio
with peas, we'll fertilized with
'oup' and potash, and then back to COZ
'noy' This completes the three-year rota
con- which should be continued on
Make deep and deeper breaking until
sized get a very deep soil SO filled with
INTO citation of some of the legumes
s zo' we can grow good crops every We
oass' the seasons are not so good.
cans. simply question of vegetation II
'f'i form of some legume. phosphorus
"''~> ash. and ammonia (the last being
hang nished with barnyard manure ant
ainty legumes), deep breaking and the
xnen. oueh cultivation to get our LIANT
9 not producing as we have never DIRE
easy OIL. M. Johnson In Progre
IS Inn Farmer.