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Cotton Seed Selection.
Select Plants of the Type and Variety You Desire, and Plant Seed
From These in a Special Seed Patch In Three Year' Time
Yon Will : Make 25 Per Gent More Cotton Without One .Lick of
Extra Work. ; I
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Messrs. Editors: The first thing
in selecting cotton seed for planting
purposes is to have a breeding patct
where the land has been thoroughly
prepared, well planted, rapidly culti
vated and well fertilized. Plant
for breeding purposes should havt
plenty of distance in the row and
drill, and plenty of plant food. The
same laws of nature, hold true ir
producing a good individual in plan'
life as in animal life; and no one
would think of starving or crowding
to death an animal that was bein?
raised for breeding purposes.
A Good Variety Saves Several Years'
Work.
In breeding up cotton we must
first decide what our object is
whether prolificacy, big boll, earlines
of maturity, length and strength
of fiber, or all of these together a
nearly as possible. When we have
decided what we want we must then
look about and find the variety tha
most nearly fills our bill, for we can
save several years' hard work by tak
ing up a good cotton that some other
man has been at work on for a num
ber! of years.
The best type of short cotton, in
my opinion, is a prolific, big boll
early variety that will yield a high
percentage of lint and with good
strong fiber about one and ono
eighth inches in length. This is
about as long a fiber as we can ge
and retain the other qaulities de
sired." ... -
Why We Want the Early Big Boll
Variety.
We want a prolific cotton above
all I things, for we want to make all
that is possible per acre, and, too
it costs just as much to cultivate ar
acre that makes only one-half bale
as it does one that makes a bale.
Then we want the large boll, because
it is much easier to pick, if we pick
it ourselves, or much easier hired
gathered, should we have to hire it
done. We want the. high percentage
of lint because lint is of more value
than seed, and we must not lose
sight of the length of fiber, as one
eighth of an .inch makes it worth
from one to one and one-half cents
more per pound than cotton one inch
or less in length. We want early
maturing varieties in order that our
crops will be made as early as pos
sible. Some times a drought in late
summer will catch slow maturing
cotton when the early cotton has its
crop made. Then where the boll
weevil is we have to make early cot-
n or none. .
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When Selection Should Begin.
Selection should begin when the
cotton first starts to limbing and
fruiting. To get a prolific variety
the "joints on both limb and stem
should be short and the - whole stalk
have a blocky appearance. It must
begin to fruit early and very rapidly.
The only way to know good individ
ual plants ; is by making a careful
study of them.
When we have made this selection
" of good stalks and early fruiting, we
should mark each stalk by tying a
string on it, or In some other way.
After the cotton opens we should
then go through and sample the lint
on each stalk selected and where
the lint is what we want, and the
bolls large enough, tie a paper bag
on It so the general pickers will pass
it by, or pick the selections first.
Plant your breeding patch the fol
lowing year with these selections and
your whole crop the second year from
x breeding patch. Continue this and
ou have your whole crop from j
peclally selected seed - every three ,
ears. This will give you better seed
han you can buy anywhere at any ;
rice, for the man who selects seed
n this way has none for sale except
rom his general crop, but he can al
ways dispose , of these at a high
price.
Planting seed should be sacked
rom the gin in sacks not holding
iver four bushels, and put In a dry
lace for the winter. If left in bulk
hey are liable to heat, and if not
ulned entirely, are damaged so that
hey will produce weak plants. When
ou have a few special selections
rom individual stalks to plant in
our breeding patch you can drop In
he lint and it will come up as good
i stand as if it was ginned.
If a man were to adopt these
nethods of seed selection, he could
lo as others have done increase his
rop one-fourth in three or four
ears, and just think what it would
nean to the South If It were gener
illy practiced! J. W. WILLIS, j
Bulloch Co., Oa.
NATIONAL GINNERS' REPORT.!
2,564,000 Bales of Cotton Ginned Up
to September 25 Condition 60.2.
The report of the National Cotton
Ginners Association, issued last
week gives the cond'tion of cotton as
60.2 and indicates that 2,564,000
bales had been ginned up to the 25th
of September.
Ginned to
States. Condition. Sept. 2 5. 1
labama 62 215,000
Arkansas . 57 60,000
Florida .......... 68 12,000
Georgia ......... 69 531,000
Louisiana ....... . 40 73,000
Mississippi ....... 60 101,000
North Carolina . . . . 69 82,000
Oklahoma ... . ... . 55 90,000
South Carolina . . . 69 249,000
Tennessee . . ...... 55 12,000
Texas 55 ,1,172,000
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