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with any of the various fodder cutters, or if at 

 husking time it is passed through the shredding 

 machine, when fed it will be largely consumed, and 

 the manure pile in the spring will be altogether free 

 f from the objectionable, unrotted 

 I and entangled stalks, while it will 

 [ be quickly enriched by their fer- 

 T tilizing remains. If corn stover 



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N, I S \ i s properly cured, handled and 

 fed the supply of feed will be 

 ^ t economized, often leaving hay to 

 \ \ spare for sale or permitting the 

 * i number of the feeding stock to 



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be doubled, and besides, what is 

 often a source of trouble and an- 

 | noyance may be turned to good 

 account and money made by it. 

 COTTON. While cotton has 

 been cultivated from ancient 

 times, it has been during the past 

 one hundred years or so that the 

 SHOCKING CORN greatest improvement has come in 



How the cutter can , , . ., r^* , , t 



cut the corn and developing it. Thirty years ago the 

 the ry shock wffh e Is South grew but 4,000,000 bales. 

 sfbie. steps as P s " Now tne record is more than 13,- 

 000,000 bales. Cotton has largely 

 supplanted other fabrics and the day will come 

 when a 25,ooo,ooo-bale crop will be necessary. 

 There is available land in the South to make 30,- 

 000,000 bales with the present low average yield an 

 acre. Of the 12 cotton states, only one acre in 17 

 is now planted to the fleecy staple and only one acre 

 in ii of the cotton-producing counties. From these 

 figures can be readily seen what a gigantic crop 

 is possible when the demand for the fiber comes. 



