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proportion of one bushel of plaster to twenty bushels 

 of seed, and twenty bushels of mold. If one-half of 

 a bushel of fresh slaked lime be added, the decom- 

 position of the seed will be greatly hastened. 



Feeding Cotton Seed, We cannot afford to feed 

 cotton seed to our cattle, unless we keep them at home 

 and collect the manure, to be scrupulously returned to 

 the soil from which it was derived. The cotton seed 

 will take away from the soil, upon which a bale of 

 cotton has been grown, twice the amount of mineral 

 ingredients necessary to produce twenty bushels of 

 corn. Hence the absolute necessity of returning the 

 cotton seed to the land in some form, either as seed 

 or animal manure. Some planters object to using 

 cotton seed as manure, on account of the time and 

 cost of its application. But if the seed has been well 

 rotted, and in a fine state of division, one of Schofield's 

 manure distributors, or other implement of the same 

 kind (such as are now used in the State of Georgia), 

 will distribute the manure in the drill very rapidly 

 and effectively. These implements can be so regu- 

 lated as to distribute the fertilizers in large or small 

 quantities, according to the fertility of the soil. [Dr. 

 Hilgard's Geological and Agricultural Report for State 

 of Mississippi, 1860. , 



Cotton seed as a manure, is one of the richest and 

 best that nature has provided for the planter suit- 

 able for any kind of crop or any kind of soil. What 

 fatal economy, then, to feed or sell the seed, and rob 

 the land. 



For the application of the artificial fertilizers, we 

 will take up and examine the experiments of others 

 in their use. First upon the list, let us take Mr, 



