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washed in the spring, but never apply undecayed barnyard 

 manure directly to the corn crop at the time of planting. If 

 your land was plowed and subsoiled to a depth of eighteen 

 inches in the autumn, you can plow in the spring, as soon as 

 four to six inches of the surface soil is in condition, which will 

 often be two weeks earlier than it could be plowed, if it had 

 not been subsoiled in the autumn. Eeduce the surface soil to 

 the finest tilth by means of the plow, cultivator, roller, clod 

 crusher, and harrow. This will save much after cultivation. 

 Each harrowing now is better then once hoeing during the 

 growing season. Farmers of the South, it is in your power, by 

 this deep and thorough cultivation, even without the aid of 

 expensive fertilizers, to raise four bushels of corn on ground 

 where only one could be raised by the old shovel plow system. 

 It will pay. If need be, cultivate fifty acres instead of one 

 hundred, and cultivate it thoroughly. You will soon be able 

 to purchase a few fertilizers. In the mean time fatten a little 

 stock, a few hogs, a few sheep, or other stock. Keep them fat 

 the year round, and carefully saving the manure, put it back 

 on your corn land. 



Manures for Corn. On the new soil of the prairies, a few 

 crops of corn may well be grown without any application of 

 manures ; they are already in the soil ; the decaying vegetation 

 of centuries ; the ashes of a thousand prairie fires have put them 

 there. But some of the elements of the corn crop will ere long 

 be exhausted. In the East any attempt to raise corn, without 

 manures of some kind, is sheer folly. And in the South, the 

 use of some of the modern fertilizers will in time so increase 

 the productiveness of the soil, that the corn crop will exceed in 

 value that of both corn and cotton previous to 1862. Lime, in 

 some form, is one of the elements that is to accomplish this re- 

 sult. Apply fifty bushels of lime per acre, to as many acres 



