COTTON 



137 



Those familiar with the situation are convinced 

 that the acreage now devoted to cotton is sufficient 

 in every way to supply every call from the cotton 

 manufacturing world. In favorable seasons the 

 methods now in vogue can be expected to give as 

 large a crop as the market demands. If more acres 

 are given to cotton, the pro- 

 duction will be greatly in- 

 creased but there will not be 

 enough spindles to use it. 



To seek any material in- 

 crease at present the cotton 

 acreage would call for lands 

 now less well adapted to the 

 crop or for those now used for 

 other profitable enterprises. 

 These areas should not at 

 present be disturbed. It is 

 more important just now to 

 get rotations started, pastures 

 established, and live stock fixed 



, , f f, , The two species of 



mto the scheme of Southern cotton grown in the 



c • Tiri j^t ii • Southern states are 



farmmg. When these thmgs upland or Short staple 

 are done it will be time to plan pJknt^fsVsmau'ann^^ 



for more cotton shrub averaging 3 to 4 



lur iiiurc cuiLun. jg^t j^j^jj ^^^ branch- 



The key to successful cotton ^^e. The flowers are 



f white or cream colored 



making is not hard to find, the first day, become 



■jir, . ,, reddish on the second 



When cotton follows COWpeaS and fail on the third, 



or other crops that add humus envelofed^in^Se calyx, 



to the soil, it is profitably Sf'ft ''relchirlp^'rox": 



grown. When lands have been S>lpiVa%in'l ^ei. 



tilled with big plows, when ^hen it splits into 



. ° f . ' three to five cells, lib- 



gOOd cultivation is given dur- eratlng the enormous 



., . • 1 .1 black seeds covered 



ing the. growing period, the with the fibrous wool 



„• ij„ , -ii _ 11 .-i which constitutes the 



yields will run all the way cotton of commerce. 



UPLAND COTTON 



