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SECTION VIII. COTTON SEED AS A MANURE. 



MR. EDITOR : The great enriching properties of cotton 

 seed as a manure, and its superior power of imparting an early 

 impetus to the growth of plants, have been visible to all who 

 have ever given them a fair trial. They need not be confined 

 as a manure to any one article grown by the planter, but ex- 

 tended to almost every species of vegetation corn, peas, cot- 

 ton, vegetables, small grain, and grapes though not equally 

 beneficial to all alike. From an experience of a few years, 

 the subscriber would advise their use on land designed for 

 corn, in the quantity of seventy-five bushels to the acre, to 

 be hauled out after the land is well fallowed, a few days be- 

 fore planting time, and deposited in piles of equal quantity 

 and distance for convenience and facility in distributing them. 

 The land being suitably prepared and ready for planting, the 

 rows laid off by a shovel-plough, opening broad and deep, the 

 seeds are then scattered from one end of the row to the other, 

 with the corn dropped on them at such distance in the drill as 

 the quality of the land will justify, say in medium or average 

 land two and a-half feet apart, covered with a turning-plough, 

 and harrowed off with an iron-tooth harrow. If the corn be 

 planted and seed sown on it, the stand will be greatly en- 

 dangered from the lint and heating quality of the seed, but 

 by planting as advised, a stand will be secured. If a greater 

 quantity of seed can be procured, the benefit desired will be 

 more general and permanent to the land by scattering them 

 broad-cast, and ploughing them in. Many contend that this 

 manure is not felt longer than one year, but such persons, 

 after exposing the seeds all the winter, haul them in small 

 piles and suffer them to remain from March until May, when 

 they are removed to the corn hill, there .deposited on the sur- 



