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the system of rotation recommended. Never follow corn with 

 cotton or vice versa, but let a year intervene between these 

 crops, in which either put in grain or roots, or sow some green 

 crop to be plowed under. The Ball Worm must have either 

 corn or cotton, and if he has neither he dies. The third 

 method is to plant a few rows of very late corn among the 

 cotton. All three of these methods should be used, as no one 

 of thera is sufficient. 



"Rust," "Sore Shin," " Rot," "Blue Cotton," and all other 

 diseases, so f\ir as we know, are in nine cases out of every ten 

 the direct result of defective cultivation, and the only remedy 

 is to return in the shape of lime, plaster, ashes, etc., some of 

 the elements withdrawn from the soil by the crop. 



Cotton Seed. The principal value of cotton seed is as a 

 manure, to return to the soil from which the cotton is taken. 

 This is the only use to which it can be put in the interior, and 

 should be carefully husbanded for this purpose. As we have 

 before stated, it should not be applied directly to the cotton 

 but to the previous crop. A small but constantly increasing 

 portion of the cotton seed, will be used for making oil. It is in 

 the process of making the oil, that the cotton seed cake is pro- 

 duced. This cake is very nutritious to stock. Less than one- 

 fiftieth of the cotton fields of the United States are under culti- 

 vation, and enterprise and capital turned in that direction, must 

 ultimately bring a large reward. 



From the '^ Southern i^bmer."—" Rice— Preparation and 

 Cultivation. New land is preferred, free from grass seed, 

 and the richer the more profitable, of course; if not rich, old or 

 new, it is good economy to make it rich. 



"First, prepare by good plowing, if old land, deep and 

 ihorough, harrow as fine as can be, then open furrows two to 

 three feet apart, owing to quality of land; drill the seed, one to 



