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is a departure from ancient custom to sell seed ; so it may be, 

 but if there is a real gain to the public, the man who adds to 

 that gain, is a public benefactor, whether he is reported to be 

 a regular planter, or a mere huckster of seed. I have given 

 away more of these gains to the public than any high set 

 planter in the South ; and as I make neither credit nor glory, 

 nor cash, from such drones, I am very content to receive their 

 obloquy. I may err, but it takes two people to be in error, 

 ere I can inflict an evil ; and whilst I think my country can 

 be a gainer by sales of seeds or chips, of anything, I will urge 

 the matter, and only ask a trial. 



Edwards, Miss., April, 1848. M. W. PHILIPS. 



SECTION IV. SUGAR LOAF COTTON. 



MR. EDITOR: I beg to call the attention of the planting 

 interest to the early maturity and the productiveness of the 

 cotton called in Mississippi, Sugar Loaf and Prolific. I do 

 so at this present time, that all may be able to obtain reliable 

 facts, in season for the next planting. From my present 

 knowledge, I do not hesitate to recommend it warmly for the 

 above valuable considerations. I have planted it only in 

 1847 and '48, and have no more personal experience than the 

 yield of one crop, and the present prospect. I do not promise 

 for it the great yield that the seller of the Mastodon seed did 

 for that seed, nor the yield that was promised from the 

 Turin and Okra cotton ; but I do say, that I believe it will 

 pay the planter, even if his seeding costs him $1 per acre 

 More than this, I leave others to say. 



This day, being called into my field, south of my pasture, 

 and some two hundred and fifty yards from another field in 

 cultivation, where I have my selected Sugar Loaf seed planted, 



