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Cheap Corn vs Cheap Cotton in South Farming Debate
In Mansfield Louisiana editor Southern Farmer presents a farmer A V Roberts account detailing 18 acres of corn cultivation in 1592 93 resulting in 22 to 42 bushels per acre using home made manure and fertilizers to claim corn can be cheaper than cotton with methods to cut costs and raise output including crop notes and references to Dr W C Stubbs and Dr Dalrymple. The piece argues farmers should produce most necessities on the farm and cites Roberts as an upland farmer with many corn crops.
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Mansfield
Southern Farmer
Cyrus Harrington
W. C. Stubbs
Dalrymple
A. V. Roberts