previously stated, to an honest
return to the land of all the manure resulting therefrom.

He may utilize it in any way, even to selling the resulting seed
crop, provided all the remaining brush is turned back to the land
and a portion of the money he receives for the seed be reinvested in
high-grade potash and phosphatic manures. The plantation should now
be in fair condition for a corn crop, and, as a very slight shading
is not prejudicial to the young palms, the corn can be planted close
enough to the trees, leaving only sufficient space to admit of the
free cultivation that both require.

It must not be forgotten that corn makes the most serious inroads
upon our soil fertility of any of the crops in our rotation, and,
unless by this time the planter is prepared to feed all the grain
produced to fatten swine or cattle, it had better be eliminated from
the rotation and peanuts substituted. In addition to this, he must
still make good whatever drains the corn will have made upon this
element of soil fertility.

Cropping to corn attacks the cocoanut at a new and vulnerable point,
against which the careful grower must make provision. It will be
remembered that an average corn crop makes very considerable drafts
upon the soil supply of phosphoric acid; but, if the grain is used
for fattening swine, whose manure is much richer in phosphates than
most farm manures, and the latter is restored to the land, serious
soil impoverishment may be averted.

The next step in our suggested rotation is the cotton crop. Here,
too, limitations are imposed upon the planter who is without abundant
manurial resources to maintain the future integrity of his grove. He
may sell the lint from his cotton, but he can not dispose of it
(as is frequently done here) in the seed.

If the enterprise be not upon a scale that will justify the equipment
of a mill and the manufacture of the oil, he has no alternative but
to return the seed in lieu of the seed cake, wasteful and extravagant
though such a process be.

The oil so returned is without manurial value and, if left in the
seed, is so much money wasted. The rational process, of course,
calls for the return of the press cake, either direct or in the form
of manure after it has been fed. With this is also secured the hull,
rich in both the potash and the phosphoric acid [7] which we now know
is so essential to the future welfare of the grove.

The above rotation is simply suggested as a te