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the land, by leaching out the ingredients from the 

 droppings of seven mules and two horses. Now for 

 the result : this acre and a half produced a bale and a 

 half of good cotton, whilst on the rest of the plantation, 

 on account of the cotton caterpillar and boll-worm, one 

 hundred and sixty acres planted, only produced forty 

 bales of cotton. The worms attacked the cotton on 

 the lot, as well as on the rest of the plantation, but 

 the fertilizers had so matured the crop on the lot as to 

 bring about the above result. This year, 18G9, the 

 same lot is planted in cotton, with the same or better 

 result. Hiyh manuring will pay on the cotton crop. 



CHAP TEE XIII. 



CULTIVATION OF WHEAT, RYE AND OATS. 

 PREPARATION OF SOIL. 



Deep plowing is not so necessary for wheat, rye, 

 and oats, as it is for corn ; because their roots do not 

 run, naturally, deep ; nor does their season of growth 

 so frequently subject them to drouth. A point of great 

 importance in the preparation of land, for wheat 

 especially, is that it shall be as clean as possible at the 

 time of sowing. Grass and other green substances, 

 whether they are plowed down just before sowing or 

 left strewed over the surface after sowing, are often 

 more injurious than beneficial to the crop of wheat. 

 So, when straw or any kind of litter is spread over 

 wheat in autumn or early winter, more harm than 



