206 Practical Farming 



Cotton rotation is a three-year one. Beginning 



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Atlantic Coast vated flat and shallow, as we have shown 



Plain in treating of this crop, just before the 



last cuhivation sow one bushel of cow 



peas per acre among the com and work them in with the 



last cultivation. As soon as the corn is well glazed, and 



while the fodder is still good, cut it and shock for curing. 



Then, if the peas are heavy, mow them for hay, and disk 



the land well and sow a bushel and a half of winter oats 



per acre with a disk drill. As soon as the corn shocks can 



be removed from the rows where they stand for curing, 



prepare and sow the shock rows also. 



When the oats are harvested remove them from the 

 land and store or stack for threshing, and break the land 

 well and harrow in 300 pounds of acid phosphate and 

 fifty pounds of the muriate of potash per acre, and sow 

 one bushel to one and a half of cow peas per acre. When 

 these are well podded and the pods turning yellow, mow 

 them and cure for hay, and on the stubble sow in Sep- 

 tember fifteen pounds of crimson clover seed per acre 

 without any further preparation of the land. 



During the winter get out and spread, preferably with 

 a manure- spreader, all the home-made manure on this 

 clover, and by the first of April there will be a fine growth 

 and usually in bloom. Turn this all under deeply and 

 prepare the land for cotton perfectly level. Having two 

 legume crops preceding it, the cotton will not need any 

 nitrogenous manure, especially if much manure is appHed. 

 But it will fruit all the better with an appHcation of 400 

 pounds of acid phosphate and twenty-five pounds of 



