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The Farmers’ Index. All letters Intended (or the Editor es this De portment should be addressed, “Fabukm' Index, Drawer 24, Atlanta, Oa " THE EFFECT OF EMANCIPATION ON COTTON PRODUCTION. In the last week’s Index we alluded briefly to the unfair comparison of the results of slave and free labor in the pro duction of cotton that has been going the rounds of the press. We did not then have at hand tne statistics of the cotton crops of the South; but we now present the annual production for the last fifty years—from the most reliable sources: Years Bales Year Ba'es 1830 977,000 18563,528,000 18311,039,000 18572,939,000 1832 987,000 1858.8 114,000 18331,070,000 18593,851,000 18341,205,000 18604,670,000 18351,254,000 186h3,656,000 18361,361,000 18624,800,000 18371,423,000 18631,500,000 18381,801,000 1864 500,000 18391,361,0(X> 1865 300,000 1840 2,178,000 1866 2,151,000 18411,635,000 18671,952,000 1842. 1,684,000 1868 2.431,000 1843 2,379,000 18692,261,000 18442,030,000 1870 3,115,000 18452,395,000 18714,347,000 18462,101,000 18722,974,000 18471,779,000 18733,931,000 18481,348,000 18744,170,000 1849 2,729,000 18753,828.000 1850 2,097,000 18764,633,000 18512,355,000 18774 474,000 1852 3,015,000 18784,774,000 1853.^3,263,000 18795,074 000 18542,930,000 18805,761,000 1855 2,847,000 1 If we compare the yield by periods of ten yeans, commencing with 1831, we find that for the period ending with 1840 the average number of bales produced annually was 1,368,000 bales; for the per iod ending with 1850, the average was 2,018,000 bales -an increase of 47 per cent, for the ten years. For the period ending with 1860, the average annual crop was 3,251,000 bales—an increase over the preceding period of 61 per cent, or 5.8 per cent, per annum. During the next period the war intervened and the production fell off (after 1862) very rapid ly, the average for the ten years reach ing only 2,266,000 bales—a decrease of 30 per cent. The following period of ten years, closing with 1880, witnessed the increase which has been considered so astonishing a proof of the superior pro ductiveness of free labor, the increasebeing 94 per cent, over the average of the pre ceding period. It will at once be observed that the comparison is made with the war period, and is therefore altogether unfair and delusive. When compared, one year with another in the same per iod, we see that there has been nothing astonishing in the increase. The crop of 1871 was 4,347,000 bales, a more remark able yield under the circumstances than that of 1880. In fact the yield of this first year of the period was greater than the average for the ten years, and was not exceeded until 1876. Besides,this last period witnessed also an enormous increase in the use of commer cial fertilizers which had the effect not only of greatly increasing the yield in the original cotton belt, but also of ex tending the area of profitable cotton pro duction thirty to fifty miles farthei North. A large part of this apparent increase is also due to the natural and ordinary causes which were in operation before the war—increase of population and ex tension of area westward. But, not to be tedious, we will suppose that war had not occured, and only the ordinary causes above mentioned nad continued to oper ate. Upon the basis of the increased average crop for the period ending in 1860, over the annual average of the pre ceding ten years, the average for the per iod just ended would have been 8.426,917 bales and the crop of 1880 would have been not less, probably, than 10,000,000 bales! If we add to this amount only ten per cent, for the effect of the use of commercial fertilizers in increasing the yield directly and in extening the area northward, we have eleven million bales as the crop of 1880! It is worthy of further remark that during the period ending in 1830, the raising of home supplies ol provisions was the rule. C >mparatively small amounts of bacon and corn, particularly the latter, were purchased from abroad by farmers, at least in the older cotton States. But since the war, as every one knows, the cotton States have more than ever relied on Western corn and baeon. This cir cumstance will account for a considerable portion of the apparent increase in cot ton production. A small volume might be written on the subject; but if the statistics and other facts connected with cotton production ce fairly stated, we think that the con clusion will be inevitable that the en forced change in our system of labor has been very far from favorable. What may result in' the future we cannot foresee. We are hopeful of better days, to come when improved methods, greater econ omy and more intelligent application of labor will prevail, and when education shall be generally diffused throughout the masses —white and black. We will not be indebted for our prosperity to any superiority of the present generation of negroes in the South as laborers, over the slaves of 1860. BIG PREMIUMS FOR COTTON. The Execution Committee of the In ternational Cotton Exposition which will be held in Atlanta next October, are hard at work laying plans to insure the success of the enterprise. Among other features of interest, a field of fifteen acres lying near the fair ground, has been securea for the purpose of exhibiting every stage of the growth of all known verities of foreign and dom estic cotton. The greater portion of this field will be accurately subdivided into plats of one half acre each for the use of for the premiums which have been offered by the Committee. The first premium—s7oo—will be given for the greatest per cent, profit on the total investment in land, labor, seeds and fertilizers. The second premium— s6oo—for the greatest net profit on one half acre. The third—s3oo -for the great est percentage of increase over the un fertilized soil. The fourth—s2oo—for the greatest absolute increase over the natural soil; and the fifth premium— s2oo—for the greatest absolute yield of lint on one half acre. The superintendent of this department will have entire charge of the prepara- THE CHRISTIAN INDEX AND SOUTH-WESTERN BAPTIST: THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1881. tion, planting and cultivation of three rows running through the centre of each plat, which are to be prepared, planted and cultivated exactly alike, and without manure, in order to arrive at the nat ural production of each plat. After the crops on the several plats are layed by, the superintendent takes charge of them; gathers, weighs and gins the respective crops. This is a most valuable feature of the exposition, and the very large premiums offered, will stimulate, and justify the best efforts of some or our fancy and practical farmers who have theories of their own, and the results cannot fail to be instructive and valuable. It is the first time an experiment of this kind, where contiguous plats are provided, an impartial superintendent set over all to secure fairness, and attractive premiums offered. An exact record in the form of a diary and aooount current will be kept of every detail of culture, the rainfall, temperature, etc., Defective Cotton Seed.—ln view of the ceptionally wet fall and winter, through which we have just passed, it is well for farmers to assure themselves of the vitality of the seed intended for plan ting next month. There is no test that is absolutely reliable., except actual sprouting, and germination. To apply this test, sow a given number of seed in a box of well prepared light soil and place it in a warm situation, exposed to the sun. If the weather is cold, put the box in a room near a sunny window. In a few days the seed will come up—if good, and their goodness may be judged of by the number of healthy, vigorous plants that come up. Under favorable circumstances if the seed are good not less than eighty per cent of them will produce healthy plants. It is a good plan to test the vitality of most of the seeds planted on the farm, or in the garden, but especially cotton seeds. TOPRESERVE A STAND OF CORN. In the first place, plenty of carefully se lected seed should be ready in advance of planting time. The best preventive of birds and moles is to cover each grain with a thin coat of wood or coal tar, by covering a bushel of corn with boiling water and then stirring in rapidly a half pint of tar, pouring off the water and then stirring in dry ashes or plaster. The corn should be first soaked for twenty four hours in cold water so that sufficient moisture will be absorbed to sustain ger mination; otherwise the coating of tar will prevent sprouting. Soaking the seed m a solution of chloride of lime will also prevent moles from destroying the seed. • We have little faith in any prepara tion of the seed to prevent bill-hugs. They attack the young plant after it comes up, and it is doubtful if any ma nipulation of the seed will render the plants offensive to the fly that lays the egg. Much can be gained by observing the particular time at which they usu ally make their attack, and deferring planting until after that period. The com should also be manured in the hill in order to encourage a vigorous, early growth. Some farmers have found that the bug may be prevented or destroyed by drawing the earth from the plants soon after they are up, and thus expo sing the lower parts of the stems to the full influence of the air and sun. After the plants are up, the best pre ventive against birds is to feed them, by scattering thinly over the field, shattered corn. A bushel will go over thirty or forty acres, and the birds will hunt for it, and rarely pull up a stalk as long as they can find a grain on the surface. We don’t like the idea of poisoning the birds. True it is, the guilty only, will suffer; but the comparitively small offense (which may bs otherwise prevented) is atoned for by a whole seasons labor in our behalf, in destroying noxious ihsects. Manuring Corn.—We believe that ap plications of manure or fertilizers to corn during the early stages of growth is deci dedly beneficial, and better than to ap ply it all at once at planting time. But a part at least, at planting time ie of the utmost importance, and should nev er be withheld; especially when the soil is poor. It is all very pretty theorizing to talk of dwarfing the stalk by withhold ing manure, and by cutting and mang ling the roots, and then encourage the development of the ears by liberal ma nuring at, or just before earing time. Fine, large ears, and a good yield are sometimes secured from stalks that have been dwarfed by unfavorable circum stances occurring during the period of growth, but it appears to us such results were in epite of small stalks, and not be cause of them. We are firm in the opin ion that no present injury to the crops can work future good results—except as a mere accident—not to be relied on as establishing a general rule. The advocates of late manuring, say that the manure applied at planting is all taken up and exhausted before ear ing time, forgetting that what goes into the ear must first go into the stalk and leaves, where it is elaborated—prepared for the ear. We have observed that corn that comes up healthy, and grows off vigorously without interruption, al most uniformly makes the beat yield. Wide Cottos Rows.—A farmer in Gwinnett county writes to the Constitu tion that he finds, by repeated trials, that cotton will make as much to the acre when planted in four feet rows as when in three feet only. He then proceeds to show that a field of one hundred acres planted in four feet rows can be cultiva ted with no more labor than is required for a field of seventy-five acres in three feet rows. The conclusion is inevitable that on his land, three feet is too cloae for cotton; but it does not follow that the same applies to all lands and circum stances. It is a question to be deter mined by a series of experiments. On thin land without fertilizers, we have little doubt that four feet is too wide for cotton rows. “One swallow does not make a summer," and one experiment, or a number of experiments on the same land does not prove a general rule. The preparation of the land is the same in both cases when the area is the same, the principal saving of labor being in the hoeing of the crop when the rows are wide. Rust in Wheat.--In a report to the Council of the Acclimatization Society of Queensland, Dr. Bancroft states that he arranged sowings of wheat in various ways, to determine how the rust germs entered the plant. To find out whether they were taken up by the roots from the soil, he made sowings in soil which had been heated to redness—“yet even here the plants became rusty at the same time as those sown otherwise.” The "smut” germs appear to enter th o plant in that way—they being adherent to the seed planted, and passing from it to the roots which spring from it. Rust germs could do the same thing, even in soils which had been heated to redness pre vious to the seed being planted In it— but the very close connection between the weather and development of rust, would lead to the suspicion that rust germs exist in the atmosphere, and enter the plant above ground, through the leaves and stalk. The Scientific American advances the following important information to those who desire to get rid of stumps upon their farm: “In the autjimn or early winter bore a hole one or two inches in diameter, according to the girth of the stump, and about eighteen inches deep. Put into it one or two ounces of salpetre, fill the hole with water and plug it close. In the ensuing spring take out the plug and pour in about a gill of kerosene oil and ignite it. The stump will smoulder away, without blazing, to the very ex tremity of the roots, leaving nothing but the ashes.” SUCCESS IN BUSINESS—THE CAREER OF A NEW JERSEY ORGAN-BUILDER. Success in business is undoubtedly the re sult of intelligence, pluck and enterprise. It is said that the Hon. Daniel F. Beatty, of Washington, N. J., began business in 1869 without one dollar. Since that time he has built up an enormous piano and organ trade all over the civilized world by his remarka ble pluck and enterprise. His attention was early turned to music, and in this way he became interested in the sale, and finally in the manufacture, of musical instruments at Washington, N. J., which bear his name, His first operations were on a small scale, but his active and progressive mind saw wide fields open to energy and enterprise. He has never wavered or faltered in this pro ject. By his shrewd, skillful, and persistent newspaper advertising he has attracted wide attention everywhere, so that at the present his instruments are in use in all parts of the civilized world. He believes in the free use of printer's ink, and it has paid him a thousand-fold. Mr. Beatty is the man who first conceived the idea of reducing the pr.ces of pianos and organs. Ke knew the agents were making entirely too much profit on them, the same as was being done on sewing machines. He at once began to expose the deception prac ticed by leading manufacturers, who asked $450 for an organ that could be sold for SBS, and still leave a fair profit, or SI,OOO for a piano that $297 is sufficient for. Then the war began. He was ridiculed and misrep resented in a shameful manner by the mo nopolists, whose large profits were in dan ger. No stone was left unturned to defeat and ruin him. Circulars were printed and sent out and circulated by their agents. Ar ticles were published in music trade jour nals, and many other dirty tricks were re - sorted to. But, by the course of right and justice, Mayor Beatty has succeeded in redu cing the prices of pianos and organs, so that he is said to be by far the most successful man that has ever engaged in the music bus iness. But amid the rush and hurry of a vast business, Mr. Beatty never forgets the duties of a man and a citizen. He has twice been elected mayor of Washington without his own seeking, which office he now holds. His fellow citizens chose him. He conduc ted no campaign whatever, and was not even at home on election day. His gener ous donation of orders upon the largest local stores to supply flour to the needy during the past winter, and his liberal contributions to the various religious organizations, with out regard to denominations, are indicative of but a few of the many incidents that a’e transpiring, and which have made him ex ceedingly popular among his fellow-citizens. Men who have won for themselves honor able distinction in their particular avocas tions in life, and which we denominate as the successful self-made men of the day, are apt to possess all the qualifications necessary for the high positions of public trust, and form the nucleus from which the Nation draws its best supporters. Mayor Beatty's career thus far has neen marked by untiring perseverance, indomitable will, acute per ception, and good, sound, common sense. It. The Poweb of th« Press.—ln no way is the power of the press more surely shown than in the universal knowledge that has, in less than a year, been diffused throughout fifty millions of people of the wonderful curative properties of that splendid remedy, Kidney-Wort. And the people from the Atlantic to the Pacific have shown their in telligence and their knowledge of what is in the papers, by already making Kidney-Wort their household remedy for all diseases of the kidneys liver and bowels.—Herald. 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