. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture -- United States. FAEM PEACTICE IN THE CULTIVATION OP COTTON. 19 but few cattle are raised. Not enough fruit and truck is produced to supply the local markets. The tillage methods employed with cotton combine features of both the corn and the cotton belts, in that the heavy teams of the com belt are employed, with the type of implements and methods. Fig. 8.—HaiTo\ving a field before plowing the land for cotton. In many parts of the cotton belt a disk harrow is used to cut up the old cotton stalks before plowing the land
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture -- United States. FAEM PEACTICE IN THE CULTIVATION OP COTTON. 19 but few cattle are raised. Not enough fruit and truck is produced to supply the local markets. The tillage methods employed with cotton combine features of both the corn and the cotton belts, in that the heavy teams of the com belt are employed, with the type of implements and methods. Fig. 8.—HaiTo\ving a field before plowing the land for cotton. In many parts of the cotton belt a disk harrow is used to cut up the old cotton stalks before plowing the land. found in the cotton belt. In preparing the land the old cotton and corn stalks are cut up with a stalk cutter or chsk harrow before plow- ing. (Fig. 8.) The land is then broken with a 2-horse or 3-horse plow. About half the land is broken level. Later it is harrowed with a spike- tooth harrow and bedded with a middle buster, or hster. These beds are slightly leveled off with a log' drag and the cotton planted on the bed. About half thefarmers bed the land as it is broken. This is done with a lister or with a turning plow. The beds are harrowed with a spike-tooth harrow (fig. 9) and then leveled off with a log drag before planting the cotton. Cotton is always planted on a sHght bed and either a 1-horse 1-row or 2-horse 2-row planter is used. The rows average 3h feet apart, and about a bushel of seed is planted per acre. After chopping, the stalks are left from 15 to 20 inches apart in the drill. The cultivating after planting is largely by means of 2-horse imple- ments. The first cultivation is given with a 2-horse 1-row cultivator. 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 United States. Dept. of Agriculture. [Washington, D. C. ?] : The Dept. : Supt. of Docs. , Govt. Print. Off.
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