. Farm crops; a practical treatise on the growing of American field crops: containing brief and popular advice on the seeding, cultivating, handling and marketing of farm crops, and on the management of lands for the largest returns. from one to two, or three bales an acre. Thisis the practical way to increase the supply of is not to scramble for more acres, but for morepounds to the acre. At the prices that have pre-vailed during the past few years cotton farming isprofitable. At the prices that prevailed a decade or so back cottonfarming, as everyman who hasgrown it knows,was not t
. Farm crops; a practical treatise on the growing of American field crops: containing brief and popular advice on the seeding, cultivating, handling and marketing of farm crops, and on the management of lands for the largest returns. from one to two, or three bales an acre. Thisis the practical way to increase the supply of is not to scramble for more acres, but for morepounds to the acre. At the prices that have pre-vailed during the past few years cotton farming isprofitable. At the prices that prevailed a decade or so back cottonfarming, as everyman who hasgrown it knows,was not then aprofitable enter-prise nor will it benow any more sothan wheat at 50 or60 cents a bushelor milk at 2 or 3cents a quart. South Will HoldCotton folks are dis-turbed about theold world lands thatmay be induced towed with knows?While it is possiblefor new cottongrowing sections to be developed, the fact still re-mains that now, and in all time to come the South-ern states will control cotton production and holdfast to the monopoly. Cotton farmers do not needto disturb themselves about what the future willbring forth. Certainly, any attempt to flood themarket with cheap cotton in order to keep other. COTTON BOLL The boll has just opened. Thewhite fiber is easily detached fromit. Picking cotton consists of pull-ing this white fiber from the openbolls. COTTON 139 sections from developing the crop is not the policyto pursue, nor will it be considered for a singlemoment by anyone who sweats in the cotton argument might just as well be directed towardwheat, or corn, or live stock or any other agricul-tural specialty. The first step in cotton farming is to give thepresent acreage the best sort of tillage possible. Toomany farmers make cotton at a loss. While somecotton growers may be getting rich through cotton,on the average farm the crop just a little more thanholds its own and does just a little better than topay its own bills. The crop requir
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