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.SEPTEMBER......... 1872.
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We desire correspondence from all.
parts of the South, upon Agriculture,
Stock raising, Manufacturing, Emigra¬
tion, &c. Reports of the condition
of the crops from time to time will
be particularly interesting; short
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Lonisville industrial Es P0S i
The opening of the Grand National
Industrial Exposition in Louisville,
Ky., takes place September 3d, and
during 1 the Exhibition, which will
coutinue thirty - -five days, Louisville
will be thronged with visitors from
every section of the country. The
reduced fares on railroads and steam¬
boats, and tlio grand and varied at¬
tractions presented by the Exposition,
will warrant al 1 who are in quest of
pleasure or ben t on business, to em¬
brace this opportunity to see in her
bloom one of ttie most beautiful cities
in the South, and the most superb
and comprehensive exposition of art,
industry and homo products ever of¬
fered to the people of the West and
Southwest.
Cotton States Mechanics’ and
Agricultural Fair.
We acknowledge with pleasure the
receipt of a com j dimontary ticket to
the Third Annual Exhibition of this
Association, commencing October 22,
and continuing live days. This Exhi¬
bition promises to he unusually attrac¬
tive to farmers and mechanics* The
Directors luivo placed the different
departments under the control of the
best talent at tiieir command, and
assure visitors and exhibitors that
they will receive every courtesy and
the most equal justice.
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Book Notice.
The School of Chemical Manures,
or Ekmcntcivy Principles in the
VsQof Fertilizing Agents. From
the French of M. Goo. Yille. By
A A. Fesquct, Chemist and Engi¬
neer. 1 vo!., 12 mo. illustrated.
Price $1 25 V>y mail, free of postage
to all parts of the United States.
Wo have received from the pub¬
lisher, Henry Gary Baird, No. .400
Walnut St., Philadelphia, from whom
the hook can be obtained, a copy ot
the above work. Professor \ille,
after expcrimei i ling thirty years in the
field and lubora.t on, has demonstrated
how the farmer can arrive at a know
ledge of the natural fertility of his
farm by tho aid of experimental fields,
so that ho may he able to furnish the
crop food for each crop that may
be deficient in the soil. Some ot the j
results of his experiments and the j
. theories built tlicnm, *ve givco in
this volume, wI.k1.w11 prove ot groat |
j value to farmers making experiments
| with manures.
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Horses. — I**ast Watters. —Take
j them when young ou a level road, and
jean. make them walik just as fast as they
Dosouuily. Never let them j
! start to trot, and the .improvement j
j will be great. )
Cotton Seed Cake, &C
We have long deprecated the ex¬
portation of cotton seed from the
South, as a ruinous waste of the
essence ot the fertility of our lands.
Cotton planters who now sell their
seed to the oil manufacturers, and
do not return tho cake as a fertilizer
to the soil, are actually selling its
productive power, and getting noth¬
ing, or next to nothing for it. If
they would sell the seed to have
the oil expressed, receiving a small
price for it, and receiving all the
cake or nearly so, to return to the
laud, they would retain all that is
valuable as a fertilizer of the soil,
and dispose only of that which is of
no value to the land. But, according
to the present practice, which is
spreading every day, they sell the
seed out and out, and but a very
small proportion of the ceko is re¬
tained at the Sbuth.
We copy below a forcible article
from the pen of Professor Hillyard, of
the University of Mississippi, pub¬
lished in the Field and Factory,
which presents this subject in its true
aspect, and in a manner which we
hope will arrest attention, and stay
this ruinous waste of our substance :
“Concerning the value of cotton
seed hulls as a manure, I would state
that a gra-%e misapprehension on this
point 1ms Become current, through an
article in Deltoids Review, written
apparently in the interest of the wise
men outside of the South, who ap¬
preciate, to its full exient, the value
of cotton seed cake and oil, and
would fain haye us content with keep¬
ing the hulls only for ourselves.
Practically, about one-fifth of the
important soil ingredients contained
in cotton seed belong to the hull.
As a manure it takes rank with other
dried herbaceous matter of high
nutritive value, c. g., cabbage, clover
hay, etc.; but the question, whether
the manufacturers of cotton seed oil
arc justified in using it for fuel,
a:; is now the universal practice,
cannot he settled on that basis alone
Were they to reserve the hulls for
mauurial purposes, is it probable that
they would find a market that would,
in exchange, supply them in fuel or
its equivalent in cash ? Assuredly,
so long as farmers allow that quint¬
essence of fertility, cotton seed cake,
to bo exported to Old or New Eng¬
land, never to return to their fi< Ids
unless it be in the guise of shoddy
fertilizers of half the value of the
seed cake, but twice its price, there is
little reason to expect that they
would ^ avail themselves of the greatly
inferior and much more bulky hulls,
t 0 a degree commensurate with the
necessities of the manufacturer.
I * »«*. th ^ forc - «* ! bat
.
bct(cr th . m to usc as fuc i , hc offal, for
yjbch be now finds no market. In
the ashes, those appreciating manuring. the
necessity and utility of
will find a nmuurc worth, weight for
weight, twice as much a-* common
ashes; and which might perhaps be of
made to subserve the manufacture
superphosphate, of the
The entire subject cotton
seed oil manufacture, of so grave im¬
portance to the cotton State, should,
and undoubtedly will, before long, be
organized upon a totally different
basis ; as insisted upon by me ten
years ago. If we would continue to
produce cotton, we cannot afford to
allow a pe ind of seed cake to leave
our shores at anything like the price**
now paid for it, since, in the seed cor¬
responding to u bale of cotton lint,
wc lose not less than ton times the
amount of soil ingredients contained
in the former ; or, in other words,
we sell at a merely nominal price,
the basis of ten future ‘ crops of
liut.
Opinions may differ as to the pre¬
cise manner of solving the difficulty ;
as for myself, I still think (as stated
in my State report) that it will be
found in the; establishment of nu¬
merous oil mills throughout the cotton
region, to which the farmer will carry
his surplus cotton seed, as naturally
as he now does his grist to the Hour
mill ; paying a reasonable toll for the
conversion of tho raw seed into tho
much more generally useful, available
manageable form of seed cake.
That the present system is most
irrational, and must, it persisted in,
prove ruinous, not only to the produc¬
tion of cotton, but lead to the general
exhaustion of the soil, is mathe¬
matically certain; and I doubt that
the cotton seed oil manufacture can or
should be restrained, even if co¬
operation to that ellect were prac¬
ticable. Let the farmer but deter¬
mine that cither the seed or its
equivalent shall annually return to
the soil, as it must, if fertility is to
he maintained, and the rest will take
cure of itself.
77 ic Orchard —Now is tho time t°
prepare for planting trees in the Fall
Get ready the compost ol muck, leal
mold and ashes, and subsoil, and it
possible, underdrain the ground.— which
Keep up the hunt for the worms
prey ou our peach and apple trees.
This is a good season lor budding, but
it should be done without delay. ~-El
The StrawUrry lied .—This is a
good month io set out strawbe rry
plants aud make new beds. Giants
set out now will bear a good crop in
tin* spring if they are well mulched,
and if the ground has been deeply
broken and made line and Iriable. A
mixture of ashes, woodseartb and
bone dust are the best dressing lor a
straw-berry bed. Never manure the
l>ed with cotton seed. It is tooiicat
ing, and will almost invariably kill the
plants. Wc have knwn every plant
in a strawberry bed killed by a libe¬
ral dressing of cotton seed.— bx.
Mr. Eli Stinson, President of tho
Wool-growers Association, has shown
that his flock of fifteen hundred sheep
baa enabled him to procure eight or
ten more bushels ot wheat to the acre
than is grown ou the average lands of
Wisconsin, where sheep husbandry is
not auxiliary to wheat fanniug.
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A California shccp-raiscr yearly owns
90,000 sheep, which bring him a
income of $100,000.