| Show from the american agriculturist how cotton is grown and prepared pre P ared area for market JL 11 II TA BI E T I 1 ES cotton hu hu so little littie had bad the care of scientific cultivators that it Is somewhat to determine the varieties varie tle now la in use formerly there were three leading Ep spec eclea lesy pretty well benned denned alzy viz the ibe green seed Gossy plum herbac eum known in the market as upland cotton the black saed traducing i a lenng long soft bott cotton of good staple r 0 a aly cultivated on the sta sea islands ty by which name dame ia haq algo also I 1 wo known know knowland nand dand and more recently introduced the petit gult gulf and mexican which are regarded as sub tub varieties ef the or hairy cotton rhe the petit gult gelt is exceeding ly productive and matures early which la is a great recommendation menda meu men dation tJong with all hoge those hose planters who live lire on the northern edge of the cotton region As A very little attention Is paid to the selection of saed laed ov many ot of the plantations tiona tlona and the varieties being often cultivated near together tog etheri they become mixed and degen erale erate the planter planters of the upland districts procure the best petit gulf seedy seeds seed from the neighborhood of rodney on the if but bat after the fourth year yer it has 0 so o lost 1 itei characteristics as to ta be hardly distinguish distinguishable ablo able from th a e common greenseid Green seed variety in most if not all of the be kinds cultivated in this Ibis country there Is a ten tend denci enc to furs tury ur which immediately envelo envelops pil the seed this renders the separation of the wool somewhat mot met me e difficult put but has no other othen disadvantage i TILLAGE there isk Is v gradual change coming overlie whole cotton region regions in I 1 a use of new tools but it has not cot yet resulted in any system of cultivation while whilo la some boin boid places the bai is still in the ascendant on the great ma lorley the pit pl w Is to the favorite implement f tor for or breaking up vp the soil toll and I 1 tor or its tillage til lagey while tho the crops are upon the land when I 1 he cultivation begins visually anthe in the month of april the young plants appear aka ilva ilia continuous drillon top of the rl alies ies es the object of the first cultivation Is merely to keep down the weeds and sur stir the soil how now ever advantage advant advantageous ag bous the thinning of the plants might be at first they have so many en enemies emles in the early part of their growth that they are left leit as long as they can be with safety to the crop crops before they are brought to a stand tadd maro more or less plants are drawn at each weeding until the last of I 1 it may or first part of june when they receive their list thinning the stand Is lii generally fromi one ono to two n net fet et apart ac corling to the quality of tho thi land on a soil the plants want the most room in very rich bottom landas lands where the plants frequently S erow grow r ow eight or ten feet huhs hubs they thy should stand siiri still fart tart farther tarther ler her apart at each baeb cultivation the rid ridges gearo aro are preserved Ted ved and rather increased Inc Teased in until the tha crop Is laid by byth tho the latter iatter pt of july A favorite of cultivation in the otton lotton sweep light double moldboard mold board plow plows signed designed se to sweep over the surface of the ground add and tuia tura the soil toward the plants abe cultivators and horse lives of tho the thi north so admirably i adapted to this wor kire only seen teen upon a few tew ew p plantations as novelties lais itts it clamme d for the tho ridge system of tillage thai that it ll 11 1 in the pe culla itil climate mate of the south the balci are torry au and d it would often tt t |
