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Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7869, 21 May 1891, Page 2

To the American farmer cotton' cornea nearer bringing its trne value one year with another than any other product of the earth, and ttfe cotton farmers of the bouth are to day the most independent farmers In the world, and work less than any others. During the cultivating time of a cotton crop the thermometer ranges from 70deg. to 82deg., occasionally it runs up to 82deg. t but chat is generally In July: and by that time the plant is well advanced and the work can be done in the morning and evening. Suppose a man has thirty acres and that he has a family able to do all the work, he or one of the boys does the ploughing, and the rest of the family the hoeing and picking or harvesting the crop. Cotton must be harvested by hand, end children frequently make the best pickers. Cotton growing is the best kind of farming that a poor man can do, because it gives the entire family work the year round, and it doesn't matter how poor a man may be, if be has the reputation of being a good worker he can get the value of his crop advanced to him to make the crop on as it