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Agricultural Fertilizers. Suggestions as to Mixing Compost and Guanos. From Southern Cultivator. As soon as Christmas holidays =aro over the farmers' minds -?ill begin to turn to the important question of fertilizers for their coming crops. Volumes have been ?ud can be written upon this subject. We have had a varied ex perience both in the manufacture and usiug of fertilizers, and we propose to do our best in giving the farmers a comprehensive and yet thoroughly practical synopsis of the suhiect, and in compiling I several of the simplest and very best formulas for mixing compost n..i guanos. FIRST, AS TO COMPOST. The compost does not receive *he attention at our farmers' hands which it merits. It is of course much easier to buy some thing already manipulated for you, but you pay the manufac turer well for doing what you should do largely for yourself, and then you allow to waste on your farm much fertilizing matter that ahould be used, and used in the most valuable form in which you can apply it. Our State chemist, .John M. McCandless, published in our issue of June 1, an article on compost that can not be excelled, and ou^ht to have been preserved by every farmer, and we can upt do better than to reproduce part of H here. He said : In the first plnce take 100 pouudH of quick lime and slake j it with 150 pounds of kainit dissolved in hot water. Be sure to so proportion the amount of water used as to slake the lime to a powder, and not have a wet, aticky mass. If you use too much water you will have a sticky mass and not a powdei which can be easily haudled. Your lime should be slaked by a hut solution of kainit to a powder, which is just dump enough Co handle comfortably. You have now an excellent and perfect fixture of the lime with the sulphate of potash and chloride of sodium of the kainit. The work should be done at a point convenient and close to whore the comport pile is to be made. The materials you will need to t make a ton of compost according to my formula they are as fol>W8: Formula No. 1: 100 pounds of ick lime, 150 pounds of kainit, niltula 14. nor null! o/>i/l hate, 200 pounds of cotton eal, 1,200 pounds of stable e. iula No. 2: 100 pounds of me, 150 pounds of kainit, pounds 14 per cent, acid phate, 400 pounds of green rnseed, 1,000 pounds of stable a r>u re. You will observe that both th ese formulas add up 1,900 pounds but as a matter of tact, they will add up 2,000 pounds or more after the lime lias been eluked with the hot solution of feainit, because the lime will absorb and hold a large amount of .~_ a..~A vyrfl.Ul 1(1 u, 11AWU UOUUIUUII. Provide a place under shelter f'?r making the compost, as you can not afford to have the rains k'*ch such valuable compost after it ia made. MBTHOD or COMPOST. First, put down a layer of eta Department." 8 b!e manure well chopped and d free from lumps, about three e incheR thick, sprinkle over this v a layer of cottonBeed-meal, nay one-eighth to one-quarter of an d inch thick, then moisten -with s water until manure and meal f .are well dampened ; then eprin f kle on a layer of the slaked lime o and kainit mixture, using your i judgment as to the thickness of t the layer, so as to make your ma- i: terials come out about even. On li top of the potash sprinkle a lay- r er of the acid phosphate. On c top of this again put a layer of t stable manure, say, about two f inches thick, then cottonseed- f meal as beforg. Again moisten- a ing the layer of cottonseed-meal e and manure until damp, then as v before a luyer of potash Jime fol t lowed by acid phosphate. (Jon- li tinue in this way until the ma- c terials are all exhausted and too all over with stable manure or t rich woods earth, say two inches t thick. Allow it to stand until l thorough fermentation takes t place,which should be from one to I two months, according to the c t mperature, moisture, etc. r The formula for the use of c green cottonseed should be put a up in precisely the same way, except, of course, the layer of t cottonseed will be thioker than 1 the layer of meal. When the c cottonseed have been killed f thoroughly, cut down vertically with a sharp hoe, mattock or > spade through tne layers, shav- j ing off a thin slice at the time, f Pulverize aud shovel into a heap I and allow the fermentation to go 1 on again for about ten days,when ;i the "nmpoRt ought to be ready [ for uoc. Anoly liberally at the t rate of 400 oi 500 pounds per a acre. Such a compost as this, a made either with cottonseed or r cottonseed-meal, ought to an \ alyze about 2.25 per cent, avail- c able phosphoric acid, 1.10 per i cent, ammonia, 1.25 per cent, t potash, but its results will beat i its analysis. < John M. M'Candless, i State Chemist. t In this connection it would be 1 well to give you Furman's Fam- ' ous formula. It is made as fol f lows : ? Formulaa No. 3 : Barnyard ma- ( nure, 750 pounds; cottonseed, 7*10 pounds; acid phosphate, 350 pounds; kuinit, 150 pounds; \ total, 2,000 pounds. . ? . C t The Spring Cabbage Crop. J i Southern Cultivator. ^ With the exception of the Irish potato, there is not another vegetable bo vuiverHally grown, and esteemed as the cabbage. It is found on the tables of all ' claies from the poorest to the f richest, and furnishes one of the i cheapest sources of nutriment t for the laborer, either fresh or in ( kraut. In the more Northern 8 States it is grown in immense quantities, the grower being able ^ to get a tair profit if he keceives from six to ten dollars per ton. There are a great many people C in the lower South who do not e think that cabbage will head for r them. I That it does not head as readily r aft it. (Inert further North ia (i-no e vr. >? ViUW, \l for the collard in the result of i growing cabbage in an adverse t climate. In fact, if cabbage ia (J allowed to Heed in nouth Georgia or Florida,for Home years the disposition to head will become less t nd less until eventually you wi)i tave a collurd. If only Northern-grown cabbage eed be used, plauted early on leep, rich moist land the influ uoe of an uncongenial climate rill be overcome. And now a word about seed, lon't try to save by buying cheap eed. With a crop worth anywhere rom $200 to $600 per acre it is oohshue88 to try to save at the * a. A. ~ *t 11 imlbiuu lrum iwu IU inrotJ uuniiih u buyingchoap seed, which might ueau the price of success or failire. Buy only from reliabie touses, and buy the best. In niddle Georgia, lor the spring :rop start seeds in open grouud >y the first to middle of October, or all medium, early varieties, or the extra early varieties such is Early Express, etc., this is too iarly as quite a large per cent vill go to seed in Spring. For hese, start under glass in mild lotbed or greenhouse during Lieember. We have found that it pays to ransplant all our cabbage plants o cold trames, both those started n the open m October, as well as hose started in the greenhouse in December. The transplanting osts sometimes, and beds, but is aoie than gained in stocky, fully leveloped healthy plants as well is some days in earlmess. As to varieties 1 prefer all leads a eelected straih of the Old Hat Dutch, which makes heads if just about the right size with ew outside leaves. Eor extra early, plant Jersey iVakefield, and Extra Early Ex>ress, plant in the field from the irst of February to the last of darch for middle Georgia. The and should be manured, plowed md harrowed down ready for llanting in early winter profera)ly before Christmas, as .January, md early February frequently ire so wet as to delay the prepaation too late to get the crop in vhen wanted. That cabbage re pnres deep rich soil is hardly lecessary to Ray. From twenty >0 thirty two horse loads stable nanure and 2,000 to 4,000 poundR commercial fertilizer per acre be ng frequently used with profit; ;he stable manure plowed under with turn-plow. The fertilizer aroadcasted and worked in the lurface soil with cultivator or timilar tool. If you can follow a cowpea crop, so much the better. Attacked. Says Mth. Nancy Htoddard of Fountain nu, 8. (J. I WitK attacked by that terrible nonster yon call ltheniuatisin. OUtt NEW JlSGOVEKY was recoiuu ended to rue by ur druggist, aud atler taking two bottles, hat great monster of trouble and sufleriug vt\H forced to take its flight. I gladly recommend it to any KuflV iiog with ltheuuiaHin. .Sokl by Crawford litos. E-iorrible Death of a Colored Child. A little two-year-old son of Bessie Davis, colored, wlio cooks or M. D. A. Houston and lives n Iris yard, was burned todea'h it noon yesterday. The mother ?f the child took its dinner to it ind returned to Mr. Houston's dtchen to finish her work and vent back to her bouse about wenty minutes alter she fed the hild. When the woman enterd the house she saw the charred emains of the child lying in he floor, with its right arm, igh leg and right ear burned iff aud parts of it-> burned cloth ng lying in different parts of he room. There had been no utcry.?Monroe Enquirer. The Lancaster New9, 8 pages wice a week, $1.60. TO THE # TRADI PMRII V# v MB If you want ' your money di (present month, Don't Sp( A Nickle till you get our I doming*, r>noi coats, odd Pant Jackets and a other things. We have odd: in all these th; going to close i the price. With best wis patrons generall Funderburk i Horses, Mul< f Our Mr. Hood has just closed J loads of Mules and Horses?1 ^ cars come here, one of horses ai m of it, 60 head to arrive in a f < wires they are the best we h ( Some closely matched teams o 9 that weigh from 1100 to 1250 e 0 portunity to buy brood mares. J finish and family broke. 1 Buggies, B Two solid cars to arrive this w< ? Wagons, V ff Have just closed a deal for # stacks of them on hand of all si M four horse with regular or broa m all. Those who do not feel able f vehicle can buy a second hand, J second hand buggies, carriages wc axe nig lu sen regiiruiess c {Come and for we are far ahead of any dealers east of the Mississipp 0 harness department. We mam J ness and have no competition. ^ Remember, we buy as well as | Gregory-Hood L ING n S li! .o SAVE uring the ^ snd prices on is, Overs, Ladies' hundred s and ends it we are regardless hpc fr? r*n r y- i \ v. Comp'y. re i i 15! 1 . es, Mules! | . another deal for six car ? 80 head Two of these J ad one of mules. Think J ew days, and Mr. Hood S ave bought this season. M if extra fine mare mules V ach. This is a grand op- S Have some with extra ? r uggies. I iek, all kinds and styles. * ^ Vagons. ? 100 more, and we have % zes?one, two, three and d tire. Come one, come | ? or willing to buy a new A as we have at least 100 ^ and wagons on hand that J >f the price. Don't fail to W / See Us ? / retail stock and vehicle i river. Remember our } ifacture all of our har- g) ? sell. J ive Stock Co. %