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BUY EARLY.
We would urge upon Planters the importance ol making
early purchases of Fertilizers for their next crop, so they
can save time, labor and expense in hauling it home when
they send their crops to market.
To encourage their doing so, and specially to induce
tlfem to use the PHCENIX GUANO MIXED WITH
COTTON SEED, which, as will be seen from the statements
following, has been proved to be the best and cheapest iei
tilizcr that can be used, we will sell our Guanos on the fol¬
lowing liberal terms: • $57.50 • Ton.
Phoenix Guano, - - per
Guano, Salt and Plaster Compound, 65.00
Wilcox, Gibbs & Co.’s Manipulated, 70.00
($1 per ton drayage added.)
On Credit to let of November , 1873.
A discount, at rate of H per cent, a month will be de¬
ducted for Cash, or payment may he made at any time
before the maturity of the notes, and a discount at same
rate (1J per cent, a month) will be allowed for the unexpired
time.
WILCOX, GIBBS & CO.,
Charleston, S. C., and Savannah, Ga.
Extraordinary Yields from the Use of the Phoenix
Guano and Cotton Seed Mixture referred to
above, taken from tne sworn statements of
the awarded contestants by the for Cotton Special States Premiums M. & A
Fair Association, held at Augusta,
Ga. October 22, 1872.
MR. J. W. STORY, of CLAYTON CO., GA., received
the first premium, $200—his yield being as follows, from the
use of 400 lbs. of the compost, per acre:
Yield on 5 acres with the compost, seed cotton, 6,500 lbs
“ “ 5 “ without manure “ - 1,750 “
Increase on 5 acres, - 4,750 lbs
or 050 lbs per acre, nearly 300 percent, over natural production,
giving a net profit at present price of cotton of over 600 per cent!!
MR. J. W. F. LITTLE, of HARRIS COUNTY, GA.,
received the second premium, $150—his yield being as follows:
Yield on 5 acres with the compost, seed cotton, (>,802 lbs
u a “ without manure, - - 2,437 “
Increase on 5 acres, - 4,455 lbs
or 891 lbs. per acre, giving a net profit of about 550 per cent!!
Dr. W. B. JONES, of BURKE COUNTY, GA., received
the third premium, $100—his yield being as follows :
Yield on 5 acres, with the compost, seed cotton, 4,680 lbs
“ “ “ without manure, - - 1,556 u
Increase on 5 acres, 3,124 lbs
or 625 lbs. per acre, giving a net profit of about 375 per cent 1!
on very thin, gray, sandy land, which had been long exhausted
from continued cropping seventy years, and which had never
received an application before of any commercial ifcrtilizer.
MR. W. D. SCARBOROUGH, of SUMTER CO. S. C.,
received the 4th premium, $50—his yield being as follows, with
320 lbs. of the compost, per acre :
Yield on 5 acres, with the compost, seed cotton, 3,810 lbs
« “ 5 “ without manure “ “ - 1,510 “
Increase on 5 acres, - 2,3u0 lbs
or 460 lbs. per acre, giving a net porht of about 350 per cent!!
Plaster for as Strawberries. a Special Manure
An Illinois fruit grower having
been reported in the Praric Farmer
as raising astonishing crops of berries
by the use of plaster as a fertilizer,
and considerable interest beiDg elicited
thereby, ho publishes the following
statement, which we deem of sufficient
interest to reproduce : Tiiou
The place is near South Pass, 1
county, Illinois, on a high dry ridge.
Soil a very highly comminuted,highly
silieious loam, forty years in cultiva¬
tion, without manure, and pretty thor¬
oughly worn ; too poor to raise corn;
not capable of raising a crop, as proved
by trial, producing but a meagre show
of stalks and nubbins.
Knowing it would not be worth the
labor of setting it in strawberries
without special care, I had it subsoiled
with a Mapes the subsoil plow, which
follows in furrow of a common
plow and lifts the subsoil without
turning it on top, the whole worked
fourteen to sixteen inches deep
Plants set in Spring, as soon as
plowed, and a very little rotted barn¬
yard manure added on tlip surface
after the plants were set. More
would have been be tter.
I sent to Chicago for land plaster,
which cost, delivered at our station,
325 miles by rail, $3 50 per bbl., and
applied it to the strawberries at the
rate of half a tablespoonful to a hill.
They were set in rows three-and
one-half feet apart and fifteen inches in
the row. Rows four feet apart is a
better distance. Kept clean with
horse cultivator and hoe. What few
runners appeared, cut off. As tin*
season was dry, they were set late, and
didn’t make much progress. One
year after they were set out, a second
application of plaster was made, rather
less than bef re. Would have also
applied barnyard manure lmd it been
obtainable. Cultivated as before, and
this season, 1870, they make a splen¬
did growth, runners 'veil clipped ; and
the following year, 1871, or two years
from time of planting, was rewarded
with the finest yield probably ever
seen in that section.
The whole quant ity "f land was one
acre and nine-P nths. Of this amount
about ouc-half an acre did not k<'< ive
as good treatin' nt as the b.dunce
and produced coujp.uutiv ly less, it
probably did not yield m< rc than
twenty bushels.
The whole quantity produced was
242 0 10 bushels. Of this amount,
141 bushels were given away to
friends. The balance realized, gross,
$1,128 Go; net, clear of everything,
$817.00,
They were marketed in the usual
way commission in Chicago, by consignment to a
merebaut, and not being
among the earliest, took the average
price, except so far as their fine size
and appearance helped their Bale.
bed Variety is Wilson’s Albany. The
was not properly cultivated last
year, and a full yield is not expected
this season, that might have been got
from it with good attention.
At the same linn- piaster was a; plied
yield to a piece of corn of s;x :xuv- . The
ize was largely merer* !, b th in
of stalks and ears. Yot being
there at the time of gathering, no re¬
liable figures as to the amount wore
obtained.
To those not familiar with the use of
plaster, I would say its best ''fleets
are apparent on light soils, and those
much worn, and to have a continued
good result, manure must also be
added, or the laud will be stimulated
into a worse exhaustion.
As a means of renovating worn
land, with the aid of clover, it is very
valuable. Sow clover and stimulate
its growth with plaster, sown lightly
broadcast, over it, and when fully
grown, turn it under. r l his may bo
done late enough to make tlie clover
re seed the land, and wlicu it is set
anew the following Spring, plaster
agaiu. There is no other way as
cheap as this to renovate old land, or
to improve the quality of good quality.
— Horticulturist.
Pruning the Raspberry.
Canes which have once borue fruit
bear no more. Hence, these should
be removed as foou as the fruiting
season is over, cut off close to the
ground, so that the young canes may
have more room aud air. At the
same time due regard must bo paid
to the thinning out of the new ones,
removing all that promise to be weak¬
ly or slender. Since wo depend on
the strength of the current year’s
growth of wood for our next year’s
crop, any process which will conserve
the vigor and concentrate the energies
of the young plant is deserving of
regard. Summer pruning and pinch¬
ing we deem a valuable means to this
end. The young plant, when it has
attained about the height of three
feet, should be pinched off branches at the tip;
this will cause the side to
dev lop, which in turn should bo
subject to similar treatment when
from six to eight inches long. This
pinching should be repeated, it neces¬
sary, but should not b>’ continued too
late in the Fall, since it would cause a
late growth of tender wood. which
would sutler during Winter. It
might bo practiced safely enough till
about the beginning of September, aud
any .subsequent growth not wonted
might be removed by a light Hpiiog
pruning. This method we regard on
mm h less wasteful than that of al¬
lowing the Hammer'd growth fo pro¬
ceed unchecked throughout the sea¬
son, aud then prune hack in the Spring
to a preper height. l>y this latter
method the plant is allowed to waste
its strength m the unnecessary pro¬
duction of wt>od, which must be re¬
moved, and the growth is often long
and slender ; while in the former ease
all its energies arc coneentiab d in the
development of a stocky, well ripened
cane, far better fitted to bear its des¬
tined weight of fruit the ensuing sea¬
son. This treatment is equal,y appli¬
cable to the black caps, unless- where
it is desirable to rais * new plants ;
tint; the natural extension of the cane,
or portions of it, must be allowed.
IF. Saurufcrs, in Er.