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depleted soils, and inefficient and inadequate 

 teams and tools. The use of good seed alone 

 has been known to increase the crop from 30 

 to 50 per cent., and it is conservative to assume 

 that with the adoption of the latest methods 

 in scientific farming the yields on the lands 

 already devoted to cotton would be doubled. 



The acute problem confronting the Southern 

 farmer to-day is the necessity of caring for 

 his lands. This can be done by keeping 

 live stock and rotating crops, and at the same 

 time producing as much cotton as formerly 

 on only half the acreage. Under such a sys- 

 tem all of the supplies will be grown at home, 

 and the cotton will be a surplus cash crop. 

 The outlook is very hopeful to the close observer. 



Mr. Arthur W. Page, editor of the World's 

 Work, in an article analyzing present condi- 

 tions in the Southern States, said: "We are 

 in sight of the time when the cotton grower 

 in the old slave states will become the most 

 prosperous tiller on the earth." 



The late Alfred B. Shepperson, author of 

 " Cotton Facts," in an address entitled, "The 

 Sources of Cotton Supply," before the New 

 York University a few years ago, went into 



