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with any of the various fodder cutters, or if at 

 husking time it is passed through the shredding 

 machine, when fed it will be largely consumed, and 

 the manure pile in the spring will be altogether free 

 from the objectionable, unrotted 

 and entangled stalks, while it will 

 be quickly enriched by their fer- 

 tilizing remains. If corn stover 

 is properly cured, handled and 

 fed the supply of feed will be 

 economized, often leaving hay to 

 spare for sale or permitting the 

 number of the feeding stock to 

 be doubled, and besides, what is 

 often a source of trouble and an- 

 noyance may be turned to good 

 account and money made by it. 

 COTTON.— While cotton has 

 been cultivated from ancient 

 _, times, it has been during the past 

 one hundred years or so that the 

 SHOCKING CORN greatest improvement has come in 



How the cutter can j 1 • ., rj^^ • . _ _ j.i._ 



cut the corn and developmg it. Thirty years ago the 

 the'^shock wffh ^ South grew but 4,000,000 bales. 

 sibie.^*^^^ ^^ ^°^' Now the record is more than 13,- 

 000,000 bales. Cotton has largely 

 supplanted other fabrics and the day will come 

 when a 25,000,000-bale crop will be necessary. 

 There is available land in the South to make 30,- 

 000,000 bales with the present low average yield an 

 acre. Of the 12 cotton states, only one acre in 17 

 is now planted to the fleecy staple and only one acre 

 in II of the cotton-producing counties. From these 

 figures can be readily seen what a gigantic crop 

 is possible when the demand for the fiber comes. 



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