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blood of the land ; the cotton and corn stalks generally burn- 

 ed; thus denuded and leached, it is .not surprising that the 

 hoof of a hungry cow should poison it ! 



It is further objected, by those otherwise approving the 

 system, that it will not make cotton enough ; that it does not 

 lot sufficient land to secure every year a full crop of cotton. 

 To this objection we simply oppose at first this fact. No man 

 in this country, on the same quality of land, has realized from 

 1844 to 1853 inclusive, to the same proportion of hands, what 

 I have, notwithstanding I have been experimenting all the 

 time. If I have not made as many bales of cotton, which is 

 improbable, I have raised that which cotton had to supply 

 necessarily. This is obvious in the substantial improvements 

 on the land, and its increased value, at least five hundred per 

 cent. ; not that I could simply sell it for that much over and 

 above its cost twelve years ago, but it is its absolute annual 

 production. Nor does it possess any artificial advantages of 

 railroad or city value, as land in sight of it of the same qual- 

 ity, and just as valuable in 1843, under the " kill and cripple 

 policy" of the country, sold last year at less than $6.25 per 

 acre. 



DR. CLOUD. 



SECTION V. SYSTEM AND ROTATION IN COTTON CULTURE 

 CONTINUED. 



Gov. BROOME : In the Nov. number of this Journal, (Am. 

 Cotton Planter,} I did not conclude all that I Irad to say under 

 this head. I detailed there the " System of Rotation and Shift 

 of Crops" that I pursue here, and in which I have the fullest 

 confidence. The object of this article is to show that some 

 such article as this, producing the same results is essential to 



