Year: 1879

bic the quantity named 1.-THE
foregoing.


A thorough experience has
taught me that j, is an easy
matter to make three fourths
| of "a bale Of cotton and thirty
bushels of corn on the same
acre Of land without involv-
ing more culture than would
be necessary to the produce
ton Of either crop by itself.
But to do This the land must
be rich enough at the start to
produce the thirty bushels of
! corn. If it is not up to this
stan lard it must be brought
up by artificial manuring on
the broad cast plan. The next.
thinsis To break and pulver-.
ize the soil thoroughly to the
depth of at least 20 inches.
For this breaking | prefer a
scooter, which will not bring
up the subsoil. Next lay off
in rows three and ii half feet
apart, and cross them Mt four
feet; or it might be still bet
fer TO make the rows three
feet apart and cross them at
five feet, Plant an eaily ma
turing corn at as early Il date
as the season will permit. AS
soon as the season has opened
for cotton put a hill of this
between each two hills of
corn the five feet way. Thin
both corn and cotton to two
stalks in the hill, doing the
work by hand in IA wet time.


So soon as the corn is large
enough to admit Of such
thing run around it with Il
scooter deepand close. When
the cotton is large enough to
thin run around it lightly
with scooter, and ut the same
time run around the corn the
second time withscooter, ,wor-
king deeply, all across the
three feet rows. DO all your
future p!owIng with sweep
the three feet way. About all
the hocing that VIII be neccs-
sarv will be to go over both
cotton and corn after thin
ming, removing grass and
giving the desired hill.


The principles and practice
that govern the success ofthis
plan of planting and caltiva>
ting can be applied to almost
every grade of soil. from very
rich to very poor, simply by
increasing or diminishing the
number of s,alksof each crop
to the acre. a few expert
mcnts would determine the
number of stalks that an acre
Of any grade of land could
successfully carry.


1t certainly does not injure
cotton to plant corn with it,
If you plant the right kind of
corn. 1t must be of Il very
early maturing variety sothat
it will be ripe and ont of the
way between the middle and
last of June. So soon as the
fodder is stripped off the corn
its roots will rapidly decay,
making Il good food for the
cotton crop. 1t has been eSti
mated upon good authority
that each 100 pounds Of corn
roots gives at least 5 pounds
of fertilizing elements, exact
lv to the wants of the grow
ing crop, which, by the way,
Is no small item.


The main struggle between
the two crops is for moisture.
This begins about the time
when the com is punching
to tassel and lasts until the
fodder is stripped. From this
time on the corn wants no
more moisture and the cot
ton gets on well-gets even
what the corn already had in
possession, as about 50 per
cent. of the decaying corn
roots is water. And here
comes in the advantages of a
deeplyploughed soli, which
absorbs much more moisture
than is absorbed by land not
deeply pulyerized,


At this period in its exist
ence the cotton crop begins
to grow off with great luxuri-
ance, even in dry weather,
displaying as much vigor,ap~
perently, as if it had been
favored with a series Of April
showers; uEquestionably gai
ming all that it may have