PREFACE. V 



in some of the articles which are published under one head, 

 there may be found some things which would more appro- 

 priately fall under another head. The locality of each 

 article, however, had to be determined by the complexion of 

 the major part of that article. 



It will be seen that I have given the article of Professor 

 McKay, on the cotton trade, from the year 1825 to 1850, both 

 inclusive. Then follows a document, compiled in the State 

 Department of the United States, which takes up the cotton 

 trade where Professor McKay left it, and brings it down to 

 the year 1855. 



The articles which go to make up this volume, I have com- 

 piled from various sources. I am under particular obligations 

 to the Southern Cultivator, Soil of the South, and American 

 Cotton Planter especially the first. 



Errors have, in all probability, crept into this work. I in- 

 vite communications from the pens of my brother planters, so 

 that I may make a more complete treatise in a future edition 

 of this book, or another volume. 



I trust that the planting interest of the South will liberally 

 patronize the publishers who have so liberally stepped forward 

 to give them the first volume ever published on the culture 

 of their all-imporlaut staple. 



J. A. TURNER. 



Turnwold, Putnam Co., G'a., 

 Dec. 10, 1856. 



