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His first crop, on freshly cleared land, was the least : 

 six bales to the hand ; his largest, thirteen bales to 

 the hand. His average per acre, throughout the 

 succession of years, was one bale to the acre of land 

 planted. Dr. Philips was a "book farmer." Now, 

 let us take another example : Mr. David Dickson, 

 from near Sparta, Georgia. Mr. Dickson, on old 

 cotton lands, by plucli and intelligence, has, since 

 the war, made an average of two thousand three 

 hundred pounds of seed cotton per acre. We say by 

 pluck, because it requires courage for any man to 

 change from the usual manner of making a crop, 

 and to spend twelve dollars per acre for fertilizers to 

 bring his land up to the point of making a bale and 

 one- fourth to the acre. We say intelligence, for it 

 requires brains in any man to so manure and work 

 his lands as to brine: about such results. He not 



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only produced these crops, but left his land in a 

 greatly improved condition for succeeding crops. 



The question naturally presents itself to the mind 

 of every intelligent farmer : By what means can my 

 lands be made to produce such crops? We answer: 

 By pluck and brains ; courage to procure fertilizers, 

 and intelligence to apply them. It requires no 

 small decree of courage to face the ridicule of our 



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neighbors, for if we should happen to fail in but one 

 experiment, although we may have succeeded in 

 twenty, we w T ill be laughed at. 



For the encouragement of all who wish to try 

 experiments, we will tell how some of the greatest 

 inventors and experimenters of the world have been 

 laughed at and derided. Watt, the inventor of the 

 s'eam engine, was thought to be deranged, and his 



