. Cotton, its cultivation, marketing, manufacture, and the problems of the cotton world. :Q^H£. CLLTIVATIXG THE CROP. The old ridging system of cotton cultivation is going out of fashion. In thefirst picture we have the mule and the one-horse plow; in the second the moremodern—and more economical—two-horse cultivator. COTTON 117 than you have ever done before. Let the one-horse plow alone. It is useless in these old larger, heavier one is needed and two horses ormules will be required for the work. If you areable to do this during earlier winter the clay sub-soil turned up will do no
. Cotton, its cultivation, marketing, manufacture, and the problems of the cotton world. :Q^H£. CLLTIVATIXG THE CROP. The old ridging system of cotton cultivation is going out of fashion. In thefirst picture we have the mule and the one-horse plow; in the second the moremodern—and more economical—two-horse cultivator. COTTON 117 than you have ever done before. Let the one-horse plow alone. It is useless in these old larger, heavier one is needed and two horses ormules will be required for the work. If you areable to do this during earlier winter the clay sub-soil turned up will do no harm. Freezing andthawing, air and rain, will get things ready for thecrop and no harm will be done. Have you ever done this work ? Have you evertried it on your old fields ? It may surprise has surprised us. THE COWPEA AS AN ALLY IN SOIL RESTORA-TION You are now ready for the spring to come. Ofcourse you will use the cowpea. It will do thework if any plant in all the world can do it. It willsend its roots down deep into the subsoil below; itwill put nitrogen into the land, humus
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