Marshy ground is wholly unfit for it

and a wet season is destructive to the crops, which are besides precarious from the disease to which the plant is subject, particularly blight os by wetne at the roots. n general it flourishes most luxuriantly and yields produce of the best — on the coast. In the United States the average yield of cotton is about one bale for three acrese and a large proportion of the crop is grown W. of the Mi i ippi; although under good cultivation a bale } OT ate. ed NORWAY - SWEDEN < 4 i? - a a = par pS Sea a, 7 3/40 38 UNITED STATES =a ES REPRESENT PRODUCTION IM THOLUANDS OF BUSHELS, Leh 4 — Nasi fey |, ee [ren a; aol i: v RE UNITED STATES 22.934 You sand. BWHELS to thé acre is very common, and by special cultivation two, three, and ever four bales of 500 pounds each can be made on a single acre. a pa ene. a "SN A Tah ei Egy Se. S i SJ COTTON PLANT. Cotton, John, an American cler- ‘en born in Derby, England, Dec., 1585. Upon his arrival in America he became “teacher” of the_ first church of Boston. He had a religious controversy with Roger Williams.