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fertile, retains its moisture better, 

 and does not suffer by the sum- 

 mer's drought, which would oth- 

 erwise burn up the crops. The 

 effects of the Meadowbank com- 

 posts are still more extraordinary ; 

 a farmer in Roxburghshire, hav- 

 ing raisi'd as good turnips, and as 

 productive crops of wheat, after 

 fallow, on good soils, manured 

 with this compost, as from dung. 



•' It is a circumstance not to be 

 omitted, that lime will operate in 

 compost, upon lands that had been 

 exhausted by the over frequent, 

 or too abundant application of lirne 

 or marl, even when it had not 

 succeeded when used by itself. 

 This is a strong recommendation 

 of such mixed manure, as land 

 may be thus cultivated to advan- 

 tage, that would otherwise remain 

 unproductive." The Code of 

 Agriculture. 



CORN-SHELLER. A machine 

 for shelling Indian Corn has been 

 invented in Massachusetts, and a 

 patent obtained by the inventor. 

 The expence of the machine is 

 said to be about twenty dollars. 

 Two hands with this machine, can 

 shell, it is said, at the rate of 

 about half a bushel a minute. 



COTTON, {Gossyplum) is a 

 genus of plants, comprising twelve 

 species, all of which are natives of 

 warm climates, though four only 

 are cultivated. In Georgia and 

 South Carolina two kinds of cotton 

 are planted ; one of which grows 

 upon the upland, is of a short sta- 

 ple, and has green seed. Another 

 kind of a long staple and silky fine- 

 ness, having black seed, is cultivat- 

 ed upon the islands on the coast of 

 Georgia and South Carolina. 



Pierce Butler, Esq. who success- 

 fully cultivates cotton on the island 

 of St. Simons, State of Georgia, 

 gives the following directions for 

 raising it. 



" If the land has been recently 

 cleared, or has long remained fal- 

 low, turn it up deep in winter ; and 

 in the first week in March bed it 

 up in the following manner. Form 

 25 beds, in 105 square feet of 

 land, (being the space allotted to 

 each able labourer for a days 

 work ;) this leaves about four ieei, 

 two and one half inches from the 

 centre of one bed, to the centre of 

 the next. The beds should be 

 three feet wide and flat in the 

 middle. About the 1 5th of March, 

 in the latitude from 29 to 30°, the 

 cultivator should commence sow- 

 ing, or as it generally termed, 

 planting. The seed should be 

 well scattered in open trenches, 

 made in the centre of the beds, 

 and covered : the proportion of 

 seed is one bushel to one acre ; 

 this allows for accidents occasion- 

 ed bv worms or night chills. The 

 cotton should be well weeded by 

 hoes, once every twelve days, till 

 blown, and even longer if there is 

 grass, observing to hoe up, that is 

 to the cotton till it pods, and hoe 

 down when the cotton is blown, in 

 order to check the growth of the 

 plant. From the proportion of 

 seed mentioned, the cotton plants 

 will come up plentifully, too much 

 so to suffer all to remain. They 

 should be thinned moderately at 

 each hoeing. When the plants 

 have got strength and growth, 

 which may be about the third 

 hoeing, to disregard worms and 



