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among it, all over this country. Every cotton planter has 

 heard of these fine primitive pasture ranges, and many have 

 seen them. If the country or the climate has been cursed in 

 our appearance as planters here, it has been in the wasting 

 system that we introduced and continue to practice. There 

 is no grass, for hay or pasturage, superior to our crab grass, a 

 native to the "manor born." Up by the 1st of April and 

 continues green and growing (when properly managed) 

 throughout the summer and fall till frost. The land once set 

 with it never requires seeding again. Our crow foot is also 

 a most invaluable late summer and fall grass. The short and 

 extreme mildness of our winters, with the various evergreen 

 or winter grasses, in connection with red clover, rye and 

 barley for winter and early spring grazing, enable us to keep 

 stock through the winter cheaper than farmers can in higher 

 latitudes. 



Under a system affording such facilities for grain in abun- 

 dance, rich and extensive pasturage with fat home-raised 

 stock of every variety and land improving annually in fer- 

 tility, the culture of cotton becomes a process of gardening, 

 productive and remunerating. The land may always be 

 wrought to the best advantage, without injury at any time to 

 either crop or soil. 



Again : cotton thus treated matures earlier, feeds and 

 fruits more rapidly, being strong and healthy, and less affected 

 by insects, lice, rust, or the worm. Of course, then, it opens 

 earlier and may be gathered to better advantage and in bet- 

 ter order. It also affords a greater degree of certainty for a 

 fair crop, both to the land and hand. This is the result of 

 causes, both legitimate and philosophical ; first, the land is 

 provided with the food in proper form and quantity, which 

 the cotton plant requires to bring it early to maturity; again, 

 there is time and opportunity afforded to prepare the land for 



