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be done with this implement, and a large part of the human 

 labor that has usually been appHed to the crop will be 

 saved. We have frequently seen six men, each with a 

 mule and plow, working in a cotton field, and each one 

 going twice in a row. Three men, each with a pair of 

 mules and a riding cultivator would do twice as much 

 work in the same time as the six do in the old style way. 

 There is nothing that the cotton growers need to learn 

 more than the economy of human labor and the use of 

 improved implements and horse power. 



At the last cultivation of the cotton, and while the land 

 is still freshly stirred, sow fifteen pounds per acre of 

 crimson clover among the cotton as a winter cover for the 

 land and a preparation for the com crop. Then, after a 

 couple of rounds of the rotation, and the soil getting into 

 better heart, instead of applying the home-made manure 

 in the winter preceding the cotton crop, apply it on this 

 seeding of clover that is to be turned for com, for a con- 

 tinued application of manure in connection with two 

 legume crops will tend to make the cotton grow too rank, 

 and as it is termed make too much "weed." But the com 

 crop can use to better advantage the coarse manure of the 

 bamyard, and in the cultivation of the corn crop it will get 

 so assimilated with the soil that it will give a far better 

 chance to the oats crop that follows. 



Therefore, finally, the rotation will be com with peas 

 among it, oats followed by peas after harvest and these by 

 crimson clover, cotton, with crimson clover sown among 

 it, on which all the manure is to be spread in preparation 

 for com, and the clover tumed under in bloom for the 

 com crop, and the rotation repeated. 



