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yield 13 pounds of nitrogen, 5 pounds of phosphorus 

 and 6 pounds of potassium are used. 



If seed are sold, cotton is an exhaustive crop, 

 but still only moderately so. When a rational 

 system of farming is followed so that seed (or its equiv- 

 alent in meal) may be used by live stock on the 

 farm, and returned in manure to the land, cotton 

 becomes the least exhaustive of all field crops. 

 The demands on the soil are slight, indeed, when 

 lint is the only product that goes from the farm. 

 Wise is the farmer who realizes this, and blessed is 

 he whose farming methods recognize this practice. 



