CHAPTER XI 

 SUGAR-CANE, COTTON, AND TOBACCO 



Sugar-cane 



Distribution and characteristics. 



Uses. 



Soils and fertilizers. 



Cultural methods. 



Harvesting. 



Pests of sugar-cane. 



Cane-borer, root disease, red-cane. 



Cotton 



The cotton plant. 

 Types of cotton. 

 Uses of cotton. 

 Soils and fertilizers. 

 Rotations with cotton. 

 Cultural methods. 



Plowing. 



Ridging the land. 



Date of planting. 



Planting the seed/ 



Cultivating the field. 

 Harvesting the crop. 

 Pests of cotton. 



Boll-weevil, boll-worm, cotton-wilt, root-rot. 



Tobacco 



Tobacco-growing districts. 

 Classes of tobacco. 



Methods of securing tobacco seedlings. 

 Cultural methods. 

 Harvesting and curing. 



THE three crops considered in this chapter are essentially 

 southern, although tobacco is grown in quantity as far north 

 as Wisconsin and Connecticut. They are " money crops," 



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