GARDEN MANUAL FOR THE SOUTHERN STATES. 97 
GRASS AND FIELD SEEDS. 
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The cotton belt is face to face with a very grave crisis, and kow best to meet 
this crisis is a question of paramount importance to us of the South. The boll 
weevil is here, and in all probability here to stay. What are we going to do about 
it? The immense sums of money that have annually flowed into this country in 
payment for our cotton and cotton seed will in the near future be very much 
lessened. Where is that difference to come frem? Only one rational] method 
of meeting this loss presents itself, and that method is the diversification of crops. 
Heretofore the most oi the money received for our cotton, etc., has gone to 
the West to pay for the meat, meal, corn, oats, mules and hay which we have 
needed to make cotton, and have failed to raise ourselves. Im the future these 
necessities must be produced by our people upon their own farms, and the cotton 
grown must be as a surplus crop. This is a real condition and not a mere theory. 
The South must henceferth be self-sustaining or it must face a condition of 
actual want. 
Can the South raise its own hogs, horses, mules, sheep and' cows? This was 
done during the four years of the Civil War, and undoubtedly can be done now. 
Some day in the near future we will feel like rearing a monument to the boll 
weevil, when this little inseet has forced us out of the ruts of a dead conservatism 
in agricultural methods. In order to reach soonest and with the least suffering 
a condition of independence, we must first renovate our lands sadly depleted of 
the essentials of plant life by years of poor cultivation and devotion to one crop. 
This can be done cheapest and best by stock raising, and the raising of some 
forage crop that will serve both the purpose of land renovation, and at the same 
time be a means of livelihood for the farmer. 
We have fortunately, in the South, plants that fill this need in an ideal 
manner. There are several varieties of the pea or bean family that make excel- 
lent hay and rapidly restore apparently worn out lands. These plants are great 
nitrogen collectors, and contain the elements necessary for annual development 
in a marked degree. 
NITRVU CULTURE. 
Nitro-Culture consists of nitrogen coilecting Bacteria which work in the soil 
and on the roots of leguminous plants, having the power to collect free nitrogen 
from the air and supply it to the plauts. All plants need nitrogen, which is very 
pei when obtained through chemical fertilizers. The remarkable increase of 
crop frequently reported and caused by inoculation is due 
wholly to the large amount of nitrogen collected from the 
air by the Bacteria. 
Method of Using.—The Bacteria are furnished dried 
on absorbent cotion and can be readily forwarded by mail 
to any section of the country. Full directions accompany 
each package, which no farmer can have any difficulty in 
following out. 
Value as Soil Renovator—It has been ascertained 
from the most reliable sources that the average inoculated 
leguminous crops such as Clover, Alfalfa, Vetch, Peas, 
Beans, eic., will not only under the proper conditions 
show an increase of crop, but also that the Bacteria will 
collect from the air and leave in the soil at the end of the 
season after the crop is harvested not less than 100 
pounds of nitrogen per aere. This nitrogen at present 
market prices would be worth $15.00 and upwards per 
acre, and would show a corresponding increase in the 
next succeeding crop, no matter what it may be. 
Increase of Crop.—If would be impossible for us to 
estimate what the increase caused by inoculation might 
be. Conditions vary in different sections. In some cases 
Plant on fue left increases are reported to be very great, crops like Alfalfa, 
inoculated; note Clover, Vetch, Peas, Beans, etc., having been made to 
the improvement. grow in sections where they had never been successfully 
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