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fourteen-tooth cultivator, running as shallow as possible, 

 or with a two-horse riding cultivator with small teeth and 

 arranged so that the operator may shift the teeth from 

 side to side and regulate the depth with hand levers. 

 This is a far better implement and a greater labor saver 

 than the ordinary one-horse cultivator, and is as far 

 ahead of that as the one-horse cultivator is ahead of the 

 cotton sweep, so largely used in the South. 



The growing scarcity of labor in the South will compel 

 the use of labor-saving implements, and as one man riding 

 with two horses can do far more work than two men with 

 two horses worked singly, the lack of the men will of 

 itself soon compel the use of the labor-saver. 



At the last working of the cotton we will sow, while the 

 soil is freshly stirred, fifteen poimds per acre of crimson 

 clover seed to act as a winter cover on the land. Now, 

 during the winter we will get out on this clover all the 

 manurial accumulation and spread it broadcast, preferably 

 with a manure-spreader in order to make it go as far as 

 possible and as evenly as possible. When the clover is in 

 bloom we will plow all under for the com crop, and this, 

 too, we will cultivate shallowly and level Hke the cotton, 

 after breaking the soil very deeply and thoroughly. Among 

 the corn we will sow at the last working cow peas, and 

 work them in. We will cut and shock the com for curing 

 as soon as well glazed, and will mow the peas and put the 

 stubble in order for the fall crop of oats, on which we will 

 apply a dressing of acid phosphate and potash mixed six 

 parts of the first to one part of the last named, and use 

 about 300 pounds per acre, well harrowed in in the prepara- 

 tion of the soil. These oats can either be grown as a grain 



