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Before giving way to “ visions,” if the gentle
man lmd have referred to statistical report*, he
would have discovered the following facts : Ist,
That the hulls of the seed possessed the princi
pal fertilizing property ; 2d. That the cake—i. e.,
tue kernels, with the oil expressed out, the great
est, amount of fattening properties; 3d. That the
oil could he and was useful in many ways—
none more so than for exportation to Florence,
where the best salad oils are manufactured.
I speak advisedly upon this subject, having an
elder brother in England who buys and works
lip into oil and cake eight thou.wid bushels of
seed per week, and when on a visit here in 1837,
he told me that his best market for his oil was
Florence, and the farmers took all his cake for
feed and fertilizers.
jW itli its use as coffee or hoe cakes I am not post
ed, but one bushel of cotton meal, mixed with two
and one-half bushels of corn and cob ground to
gether, will make a far superior feed for horses,
mules, cattle, hogs and sheep, to all corn, ;i am
sure, be they possessed of one or two eyes.
If the above is an established fact, is it not
clear that cotton seed has been wastefully used
in every way? If so, then these facts known
will bring about a revolution in its use, and that
will be one step in advance in the right direction.
MORYS HAG GAR.
Edgewood, S. C., Nov. 1, 1870.
On another page will be found an article in
which the idea, that the fertilizing value of the
hull is greater than that of the kernel of the cot
ton seed, is shown to be fallacious. The hulls
not only contain less of valuable ash materials
than the kernel, but what it does contain is in a
less available condition, as the hulls take a long
er time to rot; moreover the hulls are almost
entirely deficient in nitrogenous compounds.—
Eds. So. Cult.
lIEDGIXU.
Editors Southern Cultivator : —According
to promise I now proceed to give your readers
the benefit of my experience in hedging with
the osage orange. In the first place, a thorough
preparation of the soil by deep and repeated
plowings at intervals of a month, commencing
first of September and continuing until first of
January or February, at which time the scions
should be set. The scions should be procured
from a well cultivated nursery, thus securing
those of a good, healthy growth; well grown
yearling scions are preferable. The scions can be
SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR.
taken up with a two-horse plow, made keen and
sharp, so ns to avoid lacerating tlie roots ns far
ns possible. Cut the roots to within five or six
inches of the stock with nn upward slope, remov
ing nil portions of the roots that may be bruised
or lacerated. Chit the scions six inches in length ;
then proceed to divide them into three classes,
No. one being the largest class, Ac. Tims having
the scions prepared proceed to distribute them
along the hedge row, commencing with the No.
ones and continuingtntil they are. exhausted;
then commence with the No. twos and proceed
as with the No. ones, etc. Distribute the scions
by heeling in fifty or a hundred in a place, hav
ing a sufficient space to consume each parcel of
scions. Being now ready to commence trans
planting, procure n three-quarter rope and tie a
red flannel strip around the rop every six inches;
now run a bull tongue plow, three times in same
furrow, where the scions are to be set, opening
only a few rods at a time, thus securing moist
soil to the scions. Stretch the rope in the fur
row —drop a plant at each tie; then almost any
child can set them with precision. Haul in the
moist soil, pressing down firmly, leaving the top
of the plant nearly covered up and on a level
with the surface. Each scion will put forth from
three to five shoots. Cultivate well, keeping
down all weeds and grass. The following win
ter, (say February,) cut, with a keen scythe,
those shoots two or three inches above the top of
the old stock. Each shoot will again put forth
three or four additional shoots, which let grow
until they attain the heighth of a foot; then,
with the scythe, cut square across three or four
inches above former cutting. This operation
should be repeated about three times yearly, be
ing goverened, however, by the seasons. I have
succeeded upon the above plan, and see no rea
son why others, with proper attention, cannot. —
The Bois d’arc is a tree that attains a considera
ble size. I have seen it measure three feet in di
ameter. Hence the necessity of frequently cut
ting back.
Respectfully, JAS. P. APPERSON.
Ijancmter, Texas, October, 1870.
To obtain seedlings, a convenient plan is to
cut up the “ orange” in small pieces, and plant
these as you would the seed. They come up
readily, and it saves the trouble of getting out
the seeds, or of soaking them when they have
been out of the fruit and become dry.— Eds. So.
Cult.
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