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and rapid methods of building up our poor soils, and at the 

 same time giving an increased profit with each crop." 



This three-year rotation of oats (or other small grain) 

 followed by peas, cotton, and corn with peas is essentially 

 the one that has been recommended again and again by all 

 the Southern Experiment Stations. There can be no doubt 

 that its general adoption, together with the breeding of 

 enough live stock, horses, mules, cattle, sheep and hogs, to 

 consume on the farm the crops of oats, corn and peas and the 

 cotton seed, would revolutionize Southern agricultural condi- 

 tions, and banish forever many of the evils with whic.] we are 

 now confronted. The great success in growing hairy vetch 

 and crimson clover recently made at this Station by means of 

 soil inoculation (see Bulls. 87 and 96) indicate that these win- 

 ter-growing legumes may be used in connection with the 

 above rotation with even greater beneficial results. 



From H. Benton, Acting Director of the Canebrake Ex- 

 periment Station, Uniontown, Ala.: 



" I shall be glad to co-operate with you in proposed ex- 

 periments with cotton rust. 



"1. My individual crop has suffered from rust but lit- 

 tle either in 1896 or 1897, but on thin lands, not properly 

 rotated, near me ' rust ' frequently causes a loss of from one- 

 fourth to one-third of the crop. 



" 2. The character of soil subject to rust in this section 

 is what is called here ' White Prairie ' and ' Yellow Shelly 

 Land,' probably worse on the latter. I have never seen any 

 rust on the Station except in a rich black bottom, and that in 

 quite a small place. I am unable to account for it in this par- 

 ticular place, as other places where the land seems the same 

 are never troubled with it [perhaps lack of drainage.] 



"3. I will give experience for past year on a neighbor's 

 farm. Size of plots 1-16 acre : 



Yield Seed Cotton. 



Plot 1 — 16 lbs. common salt plowed in July 21 72^ lbs. 



Plot 2—8 lbs. sul. potash plowed in July 23 79| 



Plot 3 — Bordeaux mixture sprayed July 23 71 



Plot 4 — Bordeaux mixture and saturated sul. potash 



sprayed July 23 65^ 



Plot 5— Nothing 54f 



