COTTON PLANTER'S MANUAL 



CHAPTER I. 



SECTION i. CHAMBERS' PREMIUM ESSAY. 



THE following " Essay on the Treatment and Cultivation 

 of Cotton," was read before the Southern Central Agricultu- 

 ral Association of Georgia, in 1852, by Col. James M. Cham- 

 bers, then editor of the " Soil of the South" an agricultural 

 journal, published in Columbus, Ga. It took the premium 

 which was offered by the Association for the best Essay on 

 the subject of which it treats. No more fitting article could 

 be found with which to open this work. Col. Chambers is an 

 intelligent man, and has always been an eminently practical 

 and successful planter. Implicit confidence may be placed in 

 his views. 



The cotton plant is hard to be suited, in soil and in climate, 

 and it rarely happens that such a combination of both is ob- 

 tained, as to perfect the plant and mature the crop. The 

 consequence is, that few spots are found, where these results 

 are obtained with any degree -of uniform success ; but these 

 do exist, to just such an extent as to demonstrate most con- 

 clusively that soils in proper localities are to be found, exactly 

 suited to the successful culture of this delicate plant. With a 



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