FARM PRACTICE IN THE CULTIVATION OF COTTON. 
PREPARATION AFTER PLOWING. 
The type of soil and the prevailing tillage methods determine what 
implements are used in preparing the cotton land after plowing. 
Table VI is presented to show these implements. It also shows the 
areas in which each implement is used and to what extent it is 
employed. 
Table VI. — Practices with cotton in nineteen regions surveyed relating to tillage after plow- 
ing and before planting, showing implements used and average number of workings. 
[The key letters under "Region surveyed" refer to the location of farms studied, as follows: A== Pemiscot 
County, Mo.; B=Mississippi Delta; C=Robeson County, N. C; D=Mecklenburg County, N. C; E = 
Barnwell County, S. C; F=Pike County, Ga.; G=Tift County, Ga.; H= Giles County, Term.; 1= 
Bulloch County, Ga.; J=St. Francis County, Ark.; K=Ellis County, Tex,; L=Chambers County, Ala.; 
M=Johnston County, Okla.; N=Jefferson County, Fla.; 0=Lincoln Parish, La.; P=Lavaca County, 
Tex.; Q= Houston County, Tex.; R=Monroe County, Miss.; S = Bexar County, Tex.] 
Harrow. 
Cultivator. 
Region surveyed, 
(fig- D- 
Spike-tooth. 
Disk. 
Spring-tooth. 
Farms 
using. 
Of all 
work. 
Farms 
using. 
Of all 
work. 
Farms 
using. 
Of all 
work. 
Farms 
using. 
Of all 
work. 
Farms 
using. 
Of all 
work. 
A . 
Per ct. 
72 
88 
Per ct. 
38.5 
47 
Per ct. 
20 
8 
32 
64 
40 
60 
48 
44 
24 
Per c*. 
8 
6 
10 
21 
12 
19.5 
14.5 
13.5 
7 
Per ct. 
Per ct. 
Per ct. 
8 
Per ct. 
3 
Per ct. 
20 
20 
Percfr 
7.5 
B . 
8 
4 
10 
C... 
D 
84 
30 
E . 
F . 
20 
20 
80 
8 
6 
33 
G 
52 
16 
68 
15.5 
H 
20 6 
5 
I 
20 
J 
96 
68 
70.5 
38.5 

K 
; 
. .' 
8 1 4.5 
20 10.5 
L 
! 
M. 
72 
8 
28 
88 
96 
48 
84 
44.5 
5 
12.5 
48 
51 
29 
40.5 
16 9 
! 
N 
1 

P 
Q 
8 
12 
36 
4.5 
R 
12 1 7.5 
8 3.5 
7.5 
S 
15.5 

1 
Log drag. 
For bedding. 
1-horse 1-shovel 
plow to lay off 
rows. 
Fertilizer dis- 
tributor. 
Average 
number 
of 
workings. 
Region 
surveved 
(fig. i). 
Turning plow. 
Lister. 
Farms 
using. 
Of all 
work. 
Farms 
using. 
Of all 
work. 
Farms 
using. 
Of all 
work. 
Farms 
using. 
Of all 
work. 
Farms 
using. 
Of all 
work. 
A 
Per ct. 
48 
8 
Per ct. 
18.5 
4 
Per ct. 
Per ct. 
Per ct. 
64 
Per ct. 
24.5 
Per ct. 
Per ct. 
Per ct. 
Per ct. 
2.5 
B 
56 
100 
76 
96 
60 
36 
80 
52 
44 
29 
33 
21 
28.5 
19.5 
15.5 
24.5 
17.5 
29.5 
2 
C 
36 
12 
36 

12 '• H 
33 
28 
29.5 
33 
28.5 
3.5 
28.5 
3 
D 
100 
100 
100 
mo 
3.5 
E 
100 
30 
3 5 
F 
60 
20 
3 
G 
68 
40 
76 
20 
3 5 
H 
8 
2.5 
12 12 
21.5 
3.5 
I 
20 
5.5 
3.5 
J 

1.5 
K 
a 100 
57 
2 
L 
84 
27.5 
60 
20 
28 
56 
56 
36 
9 
31 
22 
16.5 
100 
c28 
88 
84 
a 96 
a8 
48 
aPfi 
33 
15.5 
37.5 
31 
52 
4 
29.5 
4fl _S 
3 
M 
2 
N 
81 
88 
35.5 
40 
1.5 

2.5 
P 
. 
2 
Q 
76 
20 
40.5 
12 
2 
R 
24 
14.5 
1.5 
S 
2.5 
1 
70799°— Bull. 511- 
a Two-horse 1-row lister planter, 
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