60 
BULLETIN 511, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
In preparing the land for cotton very uniform methods are em- 
ployed. If cotton follows cotton or corn the old stalks are cut up 
with a stalk cutter soon after the crop is harvested. Most of the 
land is plowed in the fall. For breaking, 3-horse and 4-horse sulky 
and gang plows are generally employed. The land is plowed level 
and no other preparation is given until the following spring, just 
before planting time, when the land is harrowed with a spike-tooth 
harrow. Many farmers use a 2-horse 4-shovel cultivator for laying 
off the rows, which leaves the land slightly ridged. These ridges 
are the distance apart of the cotton rows. If the land is rough or 
cloddy, sometimes a disk harrow is used, but this is not a common 
practice. 
Table XXIX. — Tillage practices with cotton in Bexar County, Tex., showing depths 
of plowing, implements used in order of use, number of times each is used, and normal 
acre yields. 
[In columns 5 to 8 and 10 to 15 the figures show the order in which the implement was used on the several 
farms; as, l=first working or cultivation, 2=second working or cultivation, etc.] 
Plowing. 
Tillage after plow- 
ing and before 
planting. 
Tillage after planting (all with cultivators). 
Har- 
row. 
2-horse. 
■A 
M 
£ 
c 
2-horse 6-shovel 
with— 
2-horse 4-shovel 
with— 
1-horse harrow tooth. 
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1 
< 
CO 
CO 
o 
3 
P 
co 
© 
— 
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o 
o 
£ 
ft 
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4 
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CO 
1o 
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a 
1 
o 
3 
4 
5 
6 
7 
8 
9 
10 
11 
12 
13 
14 
15 
16 17 
1 
5 
1 
1,2 
2 
2 
2 
3 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
3 
2 
9 
1 
2,3,4 
lto6 
4 450 
2 . 
6 
4 
8 
6 
1 
1 
1 
1 
G 400 
3.. . 
1,2,3 
1 
1 
ltoS 
1 to 5 
4,5 
5 500 
4 
3,4 
•2 to 5 
2 
4 400 
5 
5 400 
G 
8 1 
8 i 1 
4 1 
6 1 
6 i 1 
6 1 1 
3 1 
5 j 500 
7 
2s 9 
5 400 
8 . 
2 
1 
3 
2 
2 
3 
3 
3 
2 
2 
3 
3 
3 
3 
3 
9 
1,3,4 
lto4 
1,2,3 
1 too 
1 to 7 
2,5,6 
6 400 
9.. 

4 500 
10.. 
3 400 
11.. 
2 
2 
5 ; 500 
12 
1 
1 
7 1 500 
13 
6 
6 
6 
? 
6 
5 
5 
5 
7 
8 
6 
5 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
"i" 
i" 
i 
i 
i 
i 
"i" 
"i" 
2,3 
2,3 
1,4 to 7 
7 i 500 
14 
2 
2 
3 
3 
2 
1,2 
1,4,5,6 
3,4 
2,3 
4 ' 500 
15.. 
6 600 
16... 
1 
2,3,4 
2,3 
2,3 
3 400 
17 . 
2 2 
2 2 
3 3 
1 
4 
4 750 
18 
1 
4 ' 500 
19 
3,4,5 _. 
1,2 
5 500 
20 
2 
2 
2 
3 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
3 
2 
2 
1,3,4 
2 
4 400 
21.. 
lto4 
4 400 
22 
lto4 
1,2,3 
4 400 
23 
2 
1 
1 
3 i 500 
24 
2,3 
1 
3 ! 500 
25. 
1,3,4,5 
2 
5 : 500 
Farms us- 
ing, per 
cent. . 
92 
8 
84 
8 
36 
96 
48 
24 
44 
24 
16 
12 
1 
Average.. 

• 2 5 
5 472 
1 1 1 
! 1" 
