A TREATISE ON COTTON CULTURE. 



.PART I. 



WHERE AND HOW THE PLANT IS RAISED. A SERIES 



OF PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS AS TO THE ESTABLISHED 



ANNUAL ROUTINE IN COTTON PLANTING. 



CHAPTER I. 



THE COTTON FARM; ITS STOCK, IMPLEMENTS AND 

 LABORERS. 



Two general considerations must be regarded in ap- 

 proaching the business of cotton producing ; one that of 

 climate, the other of the soil. 



The natural demands of the plants are for a tropical or 

 semi-tropical climate that affords seven or eight months 

 entirely secure from frosts. In the United States cotton 

 is produced in all the belt that reaches from 40 north 

 latitude to the Gulf of Mexico. A line drawn westward 

 from Philadelphia divides that part of the country where 

 cotton will, in various degrees, reward the labor of culti- 

 vation from those where its production is hopeless. 



But in the upper part of that belt, between 36 and 40, 

 it is an exotic, more than half its productive power being 

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