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it therefore furnishes both the acid and lime to the 

 plant, and also eats up or 1 rots the cotton seedj and 

 the litter in the stable rnanure> The cotton seed 

 furnishes phosphate of lime, potash, soda, magnesia, 

 carbonic acid, and, in fact, all the ingredients neces- 

 sary for the planti The stable manure furnishes all 

 these also in the very best condition to be taken up 

 by the plant* 



The only qestion in reference to using these 

 manures is the cost, and the time and trouble of 

 applying them; It will pay to keep one hand with 

 mule and cart constantly employed collecting and 

 composting manures^ 



COTTON SEED, 



Manuring with Cotton Seed, If a soil 5 equally 

 adapted to corn and cotton, will continue to produce 

 remunerative crops of corn for thirty years without 

 rotation or manure (as many of the prairie and 

 bottom lands have been known to do), then its pro- 

 ductiveness for cotton might reasonably be expected 

 to continue for more than a century j providing, 

 always, that the stalk, leaves and seed be returned to 

 the soil. In view of the fact just stated, how im* 

 provident is it that we should allow to bo wasted 

 annually hundreds of thousands bushels of cotton 

 seed. So long as cotton is our staple (and " cotton is 

 king"), we cannot afford to lose a bushel of cotton 

 seed. We. cannot afford to apply it as a manure on a 

 large scale to anything but our cotton crop. If applied 

 to corn, the interest realized will fall far short of that 

 which would have been received had it been applied) 

 in a proper manner, to the cotton field! 



