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the medium of cattle, for which it will prove a most 

 valuable food-stuff. 



Professor Hilyard, of Mississippi, makes the sug- 

 gestive statement that when the lint only of the 

 cotton-crop is removed from the land, it takes no more 

 than four pounds of soil ingredients for each bale 

 of cotton, but when both lint and seed are perma- 

 nently removed, the land loses on an average forty- 

 two pounds of soil ingredients for every bale. 

 In the former case, the cotton is one of the least 

 exhaustive of known crops; in the latter, one of 

 the most exhaustive. 



Mr. J. W. Eoberts, of Osyka, Mississippi, reports 

 to the Agricultural Department, Washington, the 

 results of an experiment in fertilizing about 1^ 

 acre of poor upland soil, not capable of producing 

 without manure more than 500 Ibs. of seed-cotton. 

 The ground was ploughed to a good depth, and 

 otherwise well prepared ; was manured with 370 Ibs. 

 of Pierce's superphosphate of lime, and planted with 

 " Dickson" seed ; with the following result : The 

 crop of seed-cotton amounted to 1,300 Ibs., making 

 433 Ibs. of baled cotton, which, after defraying all 

 expenses, yielded a net profit of 49 dollars 52 cents. 

 According to this exhibit, the fertilizer should be 

 credited with an increase of at least 800 Ibs. of 

 seed-cotton on the area named.* 



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