. David Dickson's system of farming. Agriculture. ORGANIC AND INORGANIC MANURES. 33 * * * I am for the plant that pre- serves the capital best, and pays the largest dividends. I have no doubt, that on good cotton land, a fair year, I could make one hundred bales of cot- ton, with one No. 1 mule: commence operations the first day of December; subsoil every acre; use twenty-five dol- lars' worth of manure per acre; and finish the 1st of May; cultivate sixty acres. The use of commercial fertilizers is incorrectly objected to by some. Dou- ble the productiveness of the land, and it will be worth f
. David Dickson's system of farming. Agriculture. ORGANIC AND INORGANIC MANURES. 33 * * * I am for the plant that pre- serves the capital best, and pays the largest dividends. I have no doubt, that on good cotton land, a fair year, I could make one hundred bales of cot- ton, with one No. 1 mule: commence operations the first day of December; subsoil every acre; use twenty-five dol- lars' worth of manure per acre; and finish the 1st of May; cultivate sixty acres. The use of commercial fertilizers is incorrectly objected to by some. Dou- ble the productiveness of the land, and it will be worth four times the present Cotton Exhibit at State Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Dickson, David, 1809-1885. Atlanta, Ga. , Cultivator Pub. Co
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