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answers to the following questions : Why should an ideal or standard 
of the variety be kept constantly in mind ? What are the principal 
qualities desired in the plant? What defects are to be guarded 
against ? 'What qualities in this variety need improvement ? Which 
of these qualities are antagonistic? Which qualities will it be most 
profitable to strive to improve at this time? How is improvement 
secured through selection? 
Note. — The students should be encouraged to use the seed of the plants selected 
in a breeding plat at home. 
Lesson 33. — Soils and Fertilizers for Cotton. 
1. Soils best suited to cotton. 
2. Improvement and renovation of soils. 
3. Cotton in the rotation. 
4. Fertilizers for cotton. 
Lesson 34. — Planting and Cultivation of Cotton. 
1. Methods of planting. 
2. Methods of tillage. 
3. Tillage implements. 
4. Control of weeds and moisture. 
Lesson 35. — The Mexican Cotton Boll Weevil. 
1. Extent of injury. 
2. Injury to the plant. 
3. Natural history of the insect. 
4. Methods of control. 
Illustrative material : Mounted specimens showing life history of boll 
weevil. 
Lesson 36. — Other Insect Enemies and Diseases of Cotton. 
1. The cotton bollworm. 
2. Insects of minor importance. 
3. Diseases of the cotton plant. 
Illustrative material: Mounted specimens of insects. 
Lesson 37. — Harvesting and Marketing Cotton. 
1. Picking. 
2. Ginning. 
3. Baling and compressing. 
4. The cotton market. 
Lesson 38. — Place of Legumes in Southern Farming. 
1. Botany of the Leguminosse. 
2. A review of symbiosis. 
3. Relation of legumes to stock feeding. 
4. Relation of legumes to soil feeding. 
5. Legumes as food for man. 
Illustrative material : Specimens of representative legumes to show flow- 
ers and fruit. 
Special references. — The following Farmers' Bulletins : 121, Beans, Peas, 
and Other Legumes as Food ; 278, Leguminous Crops for Green Manur- 
ing; U. S. Dept. of Agriculture Yearbook, 1S97, Leguminous Forage 
Crops. 
