Cotton Culture (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Cotton Culture

Twelve years of experience among the cotton growers of the Southwest have been found by the author of vastly more importance to the proper understanding of the whole subject, than all which has been written.

Of what has been before given to the world on the sub jcet, I have found no matter more valuable than the letters of Dr. Cloud, of Alabama, who did more for the true and scientific culture of the plant, than all the other Southern writers put together.

His views, and those of that Bayou Sara planter who wrote an admirable letter to De Bow’s Review on the Cotton-worm, have been freely quoted. Some useful statistics are to be found in the New American Cyclopss dia, under the head of Cotton, and these, as well as other tables, have been studied. The writer would also express his obligations to Mr. Edward Atkinson, of Boston, whose lecture before the Geographical Society of New York is rich in valuable conclusions.

But whatever is of most worth in the pages that follow, is the result of personal observation, and of frequent and lengthy conversations with the most successful and the most intelligent cultivators of the great staple.

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