1 8 COTTON CULTURE 



A good rotation would be as follows: 



ist year: Cotton, highly fertilized. 



2d ye_tr: Corn and cow-peas, moderately fertilized. 



3d year: Oats and wheat, highly fertilized and fol- 

 lowed immediately by cow-peas for hay, fertilized with 

 potash and phosphoric acid. 



If desired, or more convenient, cotton might be followed 

 by oats, wheat, and other small grains (and cow-peas for 

 hay) and these last by corn the next year. So the rota- 

 tion would then read : 



ist year: Cotton, highly fertilized. 



2d year: Small grain sown in the previous fall, highly 

 fertilized, followed by cow-peas for hay in the spring. 



3d year: Corn and cow-peas. 



In the heart of the cotton belt, oats should be the prin- 

 cipal, if not the only, small grain, being sown in October 

 in "open furrows" and liberally fertilized, to be followed 

 immediately after harvest by cow-peas fertilized with acid 

 phosphate and potash and the vines made into hay. 



On the northern edge of the cotton belt, and still further 

 north, wheat might be made the principal small grain 

 crop. Likewise, tobacco may be substituted, in whole 

 or in part, for the cotton in those sections where these 

 two crops compete with each other as money crops. 



By the above-outlined system the larger part of the farm 

 would be pretty equally divided between three crops and 

 their incidental or "catch" crops. Other portions could 

 be devoted to various forage crops, fruit, truck, pasture, etc. 



The effect of the plan would be to have one renovating 



