UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

 BULLETIN No. 511 



Joint Contribution from tlie Bureau of Plant Industry, WM. A. TAYLOR, Chief, 

 and tlie Office of Farm Management, W. J. SPILLMAN, Chief 



Washington, D. C. 



PROFESSIONAL PAPER 



March 31, 1917 



FARM PRACTICE IN THE CULTIVATION 

 OF COTTON 



By 



H. R. GATES, Scientific Assistant, 

 Office of Forage-Crop Investigations 



CONTENTS 



Introduction 



General Statements 



Subsoiling 



Drainage 



Tillage before Plowing 



Plowing 6 



Preparation after Plowing 9 



Planting 10 



Page 

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4 

 5 

 6 



12 



Normal Averages of Farm Conditions 

 The Relation of Crop Rotations to Crop 



Yields 14 



The Relation of Tillage and Price of Land 



to Crop Yields 15 



Groups of Cotton-Growing Areas ... 16 

 General Farm Practices and Conditions . 17 

 Summary 61 



WASHINGTON 

 GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 



1917 



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