COMPOST MANURES, ETC. 5 



the reception of the seed, and the mode of seeding also secures 

 a stand, perfect, regular, and uniform throughout ; by perfect 

 I mean the mathematical arrangement by which the hills or 

 stalks of cotton are so placed on the land as to feed equally, 

 grow uniformly, and at maturity, fill up the land completely. 

 In the January number of this Journal, we shall treat 

 fully of the preparation and application of plantation compost 

 manure, with some remarks perhaps on the application of 

 guano and its value as a fertilizer in southern agriculture, the 

 result of some twelve years' experience. 



DR. CLOUD. 



SECTION VI. COMPOST MANURES J STOCK-YARDS, ETC. 



Gov. BROOM E: The preparation of stock -yard compost 

 manure, and its proper application to the soil, as a fertilizer, in 

 the production of our important crops, cotton and grain with 

 some remarks on the value of guano to the Southern planter, 

 will claim our attention at this time. This species of fertilizer, 

 the most common, and cheapest to the planter, is valuable in 

 proportion to the care and attention exercised by the proprie- 

 tor in its preparation. This fact I have clearly shown in a 

 previous article. I have given this subject much careful atten- 

 tion, and I am thoroughly convinced that too much importance 

 cannot be attached to it, as an integral item in our plantation 

 economy. Compost manuring, in connection with stock raising 

 and pasturage, is the true renovator of all agricultural exhaus- 

 tion. Stock are the inseparable companions of agriculture. 

 All the team service of the plantation they perform. They 

 also furnish quite a considerable proportion of the food con- 

 sumed by the family and operatives of the plantation. In the 

 performance of all this important service, they must consume, 



