138 KNAPP METHOD OF GROWING COTTON 



ably 'where one has been deemed sufficient 

 before. The plan of crops can be changed so 

 as to furnish labor for team and help for a 

 longer period than where cotton alone is grown. 

 At the same time the better teams and imple- 

 ments will easily double the yield which 

 would give as much cotton as before, and allow 

 half the land for other purposes. 



To break the land properly, to do the hauling 

 and cultivation at least expense, two horses 

 or mules are necessary on any farm. The 

 all-cotton system of farming was never really 

 successful under any conditions. Statistics 

 from any section of the cotton territory, whether 

 taken for the present or fifty years ago, will 

 show that the only farmer who had money to 

 lend and supplies to furnish the entire farm was 

 the man who did not grow all cotton. The 

 actual time devoted to making and gathering 

 the crop on an all-cotton farm is not more than 

 six months. This leaves hands and teams 

 practically idle for the other six months. The 

 expenses for subsistence for both labor and 

 teams for this idle period must be about the 

 same that it is for the other six months, but 

 unless there is some profitable labor furnished 



