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THE COST OF PRODUCING COTTON. oT, 
fertilizer with a one-horse turning.plow. Sixty-eight per cent of the 
cotton growers laid off rows. (See Table X XIT.) 
In several districts the rows were laid off almost exclusively with 
a crew consisting of one man and one mule. There were some 
farmers of these districts who used a crew of one man and two mules. 
In several of these districts a day’s work approximated 5 acres. 
~ See fig. 8.) 
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Fic. 8.—Laying off rows with two mules, 
Taste XXII.—Lay off rows. 
Reporting. Acres per farm. Crew. Hours per acre. 
State and county. | Per | : - nes | 
ao ee ee oN Man. | Mule. | Man. | Mule. 
‘records. 
B sGeorgia: | 
Laurens County .-........ 72 | 85 | 48.26 | 47.81 1.0 1 ey, .8 2.1 
Greene County -..-....---- 47 | 60 | 49.52 | 47. 24 1.0 1 1.6 2.1 3.3 
Sumter County...--..-.: 75 | 94 | 53.26 | 52.33 Of lere al 1.4 1 & 2.1 
Alabama: | 
Tallapoosa County....... o7 | 64 | 14.39) 14.39 | 1.0 1 1.0 73 2.1 
Marshal! County-......-.- 79 | 88 | 14.03 | 14.03 1.0 1 fez 1.5 1.9 
Dale County............. 54 | 60 |} 15.97 | 15.60 1.0 1 1.2 1.9 22, 
South Carolina: | | | 
Anderson County......-.- 34 38 | 28.03 | 26.85 eal eae 1.5 | 2.0 2.8 
Barnwell County ........ 90 99 | 438.55 | 438.55 1.0 As 1.0 1.4 1.4 
Texas: | | 
PillisiCounty==---.<. 36 48 | 129.06 | 25.17 1.0 1 er Bg 1-7 
Rusk County............ 25 33 | 43.28 | 33. 96 1.0 1 | ev 1.4 1.8 
OPEN ROWS. 
A few of the growers (13 per cent) followed the practice of opening 
' rows prior to putting on the fertilizer. (See Table X XIII.) 
_ The rows were opened in different ways, some using a stripper or 
middle-buster, others using a heel sweep, bull tongue, scooter, or 
some such implement, attached to a Georgia stock. The crew con- 
sisted chiefly of one man and one mule. This practice was common 
