uplands the yield is light, but with a fair proportion of lint; ^ood for 

 on heavy bottom lands the growth may be heavy, but the ^^J — 

 proportion of lint to the whole plant very much reduced. i^ 



The preparation of the soil must be even and thorough; 

 light soils should be plowed to a depth of six inches, heavy 

 soils about eight inches. The rows should be four feet 

 apart; on very rich soils the hills may be made twelve inches 

 apart, but on the light soils common to cotton sections 

 twenty-four inches is a better space between plants. About 

 one bushel of seed per acre is the usual allowance. 



The plant-food needs of cotton are shown by the plant 

 food actually contained in the whole crop, as follows: 



T>int . . 

 Seed . . 

 Bolls . . 

 Leaves 

 Stems. . 

 Roots. . 



2,841 55.60 12.15 39. IJ 



Many fertilizer formulas have been recommended, and 

 by all kinds of authority, and green manuring is widely- 

 advised as a means of getting a supply of cheap ammonia;, 

 but, with this crop especially, cheap ammoniates are very 

 dear. The cotton plant should have stored up all the food 

 it needs by the 1st or 15th of August; frotn this time on 

 grotuth should be checked that the plant may develop the 

 forynation of seed and lint. If, on the contrary, plant food 

 is still supplied late in the season, new growth is the result, 

 and in consequence a lessened production of lint and seed. 

 The lower (rrade ammoniates, such as cotton-seed meal, green 

 manuring, tankage, and dried blood, continue to supply 

 ai.'ailable Nitrogen until checked by cold weather, hence 

 these forms of ammoniates are not desirable for the most 

 economical production, of cotton. In order to supply the 

 necessary plant food for the earlier stages of growth, so much 

 of these low grade ammoniates must be used that injury from 

 lack of ripening is almost sure to occur. 



The most rational way of fertilizing cotton is to apply 

 the phosphoric acid and potash with the seed, or just before 



