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David Dickson's plan. He says, in a letter on the 

 subject to the Southern Cultivator, December 5th, 1868: 

 " I will now give you a plan that will carry the cotton 

 crop through eight or ten weeks of drouth with 

 safety, and enable it to get ahead of the caterpillar. 

 The boll- worm may come too soon for a full crop, but 

 one need not fear the caterpillar, if they do not come 

 before the first of September. Always remember the 

 soil must be good and deep, and subsoiled six inches 

 deeper, and furnished with a good supply of Peruvian 

 guano, dissolved bones, plaster and salt (one hundred 

 pounds of each). A cotton plant, to stand two weeks' 

 drouth, must have four inches soil and six inches sub- 

 soil ; three weeks', six inches soil, and same subsoil ; 

 four weeks", eight inches soil, six inches subsoil ; and 

 to stand ten weeks' drouth, sixteen inches soil, with 

 six inches broken below. 



This plan will hold the forms and bolls during 

 the whole time, and not give them up when it rains. 

 If you prepare your land and carry out this plan well, 

 you may expect from four hundred to eight hundred 

 pounds of lint per acre, according to the character of 

 the land. 



Mr, Jas. H, Wilkins, of Bellemonte, Jefferson 

 county, Georgia, under date of December?, 1868, gives 

 the following statement of the relative value of the 

 different fertilizers in the production of cotton. The 

 experiment was tried on twelve acres, allowing one 

 acre to each fertilizer: 



