Woodruff County news., 1907-04-18
FARMING IN
 THE SOUTH
PLANS FOR A COTTON CROP.
Formulas for Fertilizing, Three-Year
 Crop Rotation.

AS have been growing tobacco for some years and not very much cotton, l will give my plans for the present year, as l am going to leave off to- bacco and increase my cotton crop.
 My land is sandy loam to a very deep sand, the clay being from two feet to five feet from top of the ground. The better of the land was in cotton last year and the poorer in wheat, followed by peas, part of the peas being moved off 1 intend using farm manureS on the part that was in cotton last year, raising about fifty bushels of stable manure or two hun dred bushels of barnyard manure per acre, drilled in with a Lindsay manure drill
 1 intend buying the material and mixing my fertilizer, using at the rate of 200 pounds of 16 per cent acid phosphate, 30 pounds of fifty per cent muriate of potash and 100 pounds of cottonseed meal and 50 pounds of nj trate of soda not later than the first of June per acre, as far as the farm manures go.
 On the pea fallow I intend using the same amount of acid, muriate of potash and cottonseed meal. l in- tend conducting an experiment on the land where the peas were moved of and where they were not, to ascertain whether or not there is any more ann monia needed. This land is very thin but made good crop of peavines by using 200 pounds 16 per cent acid, 40 pounds muriate of potash. and 15t pounds nitrate of soda per acre. This land had not been making peas well, so l decided to use ammonia for the peas and it seemed to have a good effect but I would not use the ammo nia on average land.
 I have broken the pea falloW with a two-hOrse blow from seven to eight inches deep. l will harrow the land with an Acme harrow in March: then lay off my three and one-half feet apart, then put in my manure and list on it so as to have low fiat bed so as to plant on level. I will first run over the cotton with a sectional weed CT or with a King chopper-weeder that I have just ordered. The cultivation afterwards will be with Planet Jun ior cultivator once to every middle about every ten days. It should be gone over as soon after rain as pos sible to destroy all weeds and grass and also to break the crust that has formed. l endeayored to cultivate as nearly on a level as possible, hence three and one-half feet rows are as narrow as l can cultivate to best ad vantage. For very good land that grows a rank weed the rows should be four feet wide.
 It is not considered good farming to plant cotton after cotton, but the land 1 will follow with cotton is a dunghill and near the barnyard. By the use of larnyard manure we can keep up the humus in the soil which is so essential to growing good crops. more especially cotton. l propose to follow the cotton with rye in Septem- Der, put in with small hose to Planet Jr. cultivator, going one time to the row This rye will make good graz ing for stock through the winter, re- tain the plant food in the land and furnish good coat of humus to turn under in spring-this land to be plant ed in corn next year. manured with barnyard manure and fertiliZed with about the same mixture as the cotton, except l plan to use a part of the fer tilizer al laying-by, the nitrogen be- ing in the form of nitrate of soda. By manuring corn heavily I hope to grow a good crop or pea vines to fur nish plant food for the crop of wheat and oats to follow the corn the next year, the small grain to be followed with peas, we'll fertilized with acid and potash, and then back to cotton. This completes the three-year rotation which should be continued on with deep and deeper breaking until we get very deep soil so filled with veg citation of some of the legumes that we can grow good crops every year if the seasons are not so good. It is simply question of vegetation in the form of some legume. phosphorus. pot ash, and ammonia (the last being fur nished with barnyard manure and the legumes), deep breaking and the thor ough cultivation to get our lands to producing as we have never dreamed of-H. M. Johnson In Progre ssive Farmer