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tation that will provide frequent crops of cow peas and other 

 leguminous plants to aid in building up the fertility of our 

 soils. All thoughtful people are agreed that the practice of 

 growing nothing but cotton year after year has been the fruit- 

 ful cause of many of the grave problems that now confront 

 the Southern farmer. This better method that shall be con- 

 serving and adding to the fertility of our soil instead of rap- 

 idly depleting it, is demanded by every consideration of 

 business prudence, and of justice to the generations that are 

 to follow us. When these thin lands of the South shall be de- 

 voted two years out of every three to the growth of forage 

 crops, including peas and other legumes, which, together with 

 the cotton seed, shall be fed to live stock, thus producing an 

 abundant supply of home-made manure, to be supplemented 

 by the purchase of such mineral fertilizers as experience indi- 

 cates as necessary, then will cotton rust largely disappear, 

 together with most of the other agricultural ills that now con- 

 front us, and the " New South " will have indeed become a 

 reality. 



