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COTTON. 



In the southern parts of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, the plant 

 will be largely cultivated. Here, among the people, no seed can 

 be had; usually it has rotted at the gins ; now it is gathered up, 

 and is going to be planted. But it can be obtained at all the 

 stations. Let everybody try it ; thousands are certain to succeed 

 and to do well. 



TOBACCO. 



The use of tobacco is undoubtedly an evil — nothing can be 

 clearer — and the reason why it is so prevalent is, because it is 

 BO slight an evil. Then, let us raise tobacco, and thereby 

 ■strengthen ourselves to overthrow not only the greatest evil but 

 the most awful crime. 



On good soil it can be raised everywhere. Connecticut settled 

 this question ten years ago, and every year since has raised a 

 better article and got higher prices than Virginia has done. 

 Those who have no more than half an acre of land should raise 

 all they use. Tobacco is going to be high; in the leaf it is 

 worth over ten cents now; it will be worth twenty cents within 

 a year. It can be grown at a profit in any free State at five 

 cents per pound. Tobacco planters have got rich at four cents. 



Look out for breakers in the way of high prices and taxes, and 

 •reflect how better you can meet them than by raising tobacco. 

 Let every man, even if he has to " stretch his conscience" a 

 little, plant tobacco, for it alwa3^s brings the cash. There are 

 tobacco seeds in every seed-box in stores, and often the plants 

 can be got of neighbors as one does cabbage plants. It will not 

 be quite too late to sow the seed while you are reading this, that 

 is, in latitudes north of forty degrees. But these remarks are 

 timely for next year. During the summer clear off a piece of 

 ii«w land, cut out the small trees and deaden the old ones is a 

 quick way, and sow turnips in the fall, or make preparations to 

 manure an old field, and have it ready. The effects of this War 

 will last for years ; the war itself may. It usually takes a 

 farmer a year to prepare for a new crop ; often much longer. 

 But every one. can do a little this year. Fancy the immense 

 amount the north would raise if every farmer planted only one 

 hundred hills. 



I know many farmers who will plant from one to five acres. 

 They would not have put out a plant if it had not been for the 

 war. 



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