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SoIL-EXHAUSTION AND CHEAP LANDS.—It appears that even in India 
itis becoming understood that land under cultivation is liable to de- 
crease in fertility where wild or new lands can be had at a very cheap 
rate. The Agricultural Gazette of India says: 
It will be a good thing for Ceylon when the last acre uf jungle available for coffee 
has been felled; for not till then is the necessity for a liberal system of manuring 
likely to be recognized. Cheap land means, generally, in a few years exhausted land. 
Tf the original outlay can be returned in four or five years without manuring, it is use- 
less to expect men to lay outa lot of money, which will only delay this wished-for 
return. 
THE COTTON-CROP IN AUSTIN CouUNTY, TEX.—The secretary of the 
Agricultural Society of New Ulm, Austin County, Tex., reports to this 
Department that the past season has proved a very unpropitious one to 
the cotton-crop in that section. Owing to the cold spring the crop was 
about a month later than usual; then the cotton-worm came a month 
earlier than in 1872. As some fields escaped the ravages of the worm 
the yield is exceedingly variable, being not above one bale of 500 pounds 
of ginned cotton to 12 acres in some places, and three and four times as 
much in others. The crop is inferior in quality to that of 1872, requiring 
some 200 pounds more of rough cotton to make a baleof ginned. Our 
correspondent represents that the results of experiments in trying to 
destroy the cotton-worm with Paris green, as reported, are so conflicting 
that he is unable to arrive atany satisfactory conclusion respecting them. 
COTTON YIELD GREATER THAN ANTICIPATED.—The secretary of the 
Farmers’ Society, Pendleton, Anderson County, 8S. C., reports that, in 
that section, the cotton-crop turns out better than it promised in Sep- 
tember. This is owing to the facts that the fall has been unprecedent- 
edly favorable for picking, and that, though the rust and worm appeared 
in that upland locality more generally than heretofore known, yet in 
cases where the attack was not too early and where the growth was very 
luxuriant, the check thus occasioned proved a benefit rather than an 
injury. 
SUCCESSFUL FARMING.—Judge F. M. Wood, of Barbour County, Ala., 
is reported as having cultivated, the past season, one acre of “ poor, 
sandy land,” on which the only fertilizer used was 80 bushels of cotton- 
seed, with the following results: He sowed it, in January, with oats, 
from which he gathered 4,606 pounds in the sheaf, and, at $1.50 per 
hundred-weight, realized $69.09. In June he planted corn, and among 
it, at the suitable time, sowed pease. He gathered 143 bushels of corn, 
worth $1 per bushel; 82 bushels of pease, worth $1.50 per bushel; and 
486 pounds of fodder, worth $1 per hundred pounds; the total amount- 
ing to $101.82. These crops having been all harvested, the land is now 
sowed in rye for winter pasturage. 
EXPERIMENT IN WINTERING STOCK.—In an address before the Na- 
tional Stock Growers’ Convention, recently held at Kansas City, J. C. 
Febles, editor of the Colorado Farmer, says: 
One of our farmers, engaged in mixed husbandry, as an experiment last winter? 
sheltered and fed hay to, when the severity of the weather required it, a lot of three- 
year-old steers. Another lot of the same age, size, and condition, as near as possible, 
he permitted to run at large without shelter or extra feed, as is the usual custom. ‘The 
winter was an unusually mild one. A few weeks ago the farmer sold both lots of steers 
and realized a profit of over 100 per cent. on the hay fed, over and above that for which 
the other cattle sold in the market. 
Mr. Febles brings forward this experiment to show the advantages of 
mixed husbandry over a system of exclusive stock-raising in large herds; 
and in the same connection he urges that it is impracticable to improve 
