Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1856-03-12
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BOYpS EXTRA PROLIFIC COTTON SEED.


MEssRs ED1roRs:-As planting time is
approaching, it would be well that farmers
arrange their plans to the greatest possible
advantage. Some farmers contend that the
most essential requisite in ensuring good
crop is good stand, either in corn or cotton.
That is certainly true; but in order to ensure
the greatest yield per acre. with equally
good stands, it is essentially necessary to
plant improred seed-seed that will, from
their prolific qualities, produce n double
Weld from the same amount of weed or
stalk.
To illustrate my position: you may plant
popcorn and if you gather any thing at
all, it will be small yield Of popcorn. This
rule will also hold good with regard to mean.
er varieties Of cotton, wheat or any other
seeds. There are many varieties Of improv.
ed cottons, each one of which has its strenu.
GUS advocates; but of all the varieties that
have yet tried, or seen tried by others,
give the preference to All improved cluster
cotton, we'll known in many portions Of this
District, as " Boycrs Extra Prolific" Among
the many claims to superiority which this
variety possesses over all others, the first is,
that it can be crowded in the drill, and the
rows need not be wider than 80 or 36 inches
apart, either on up.lands or low.ground. II
your stand is thin or missing, it will throw
out branches at or near the ground, each
one Of which will bear crop equal to an
ordinary stalk. This seems to be provision
Of nature and peculiar to this variety-thus
enabling it to mature a heavy yield either
in crowded or in thin stand.
In the second place, I do not pretend to
say that it will mature or commence making
more early than other varieties, but when it
does commence,
"Just lay down the pow and the hoe
And throw away the fiddle and bow"
For it does certainly make faster than any
cotton that have ever had any thing to do
with, and when it commences to open it does
its work with telegraph speed. This [ con-
ceive to be great advantage. 1t does not
open few bolls to day, few another day,
or commence in July and hold on till Janua.
ry, as is the case with other varieties. Its
last, but moi least advantage is, it does not
shed tho squares or bolls in rainy weather
or in drouth. This is the main secret Of its
prolific qualities. It is like an old miser; it
makes all it can and holds on to all it makes.
Though in extreme drouth some Of the
squares dry up. yet it does not shed and fall
off, compared with other coltons.
| might mention its superior staple, its
rapid growth and small seed among its other
advantages, but those who wish to know
more Of it, had better try it for their own
satisfaction.
hesitate not in saying that, from my ex.
perience with this cotton, If planted on good
land, crowded in the drill, in rows at the
proper distance, and with good seasons and
cultivation, it will produce from 1900 to
1000 lbs per acre. In proof OF the correct.
ness Of my opinion (apparently extravaganD
I give you the net product of small crop,
made last year. not three miles from Cam.
bridge. Twenty.six acres produced $4,000
pounds Of seed cotton, or about 100
pounds per acre.
1t has beea planted by several persons in
the neighborhood Of Cambridge for two or
three years, and have not seen the first one
who does not hold it in the highest repute.
One of these gentlemen, Of mos. .unquestiona.
bic judgment, told me, that he believed that
the Boyd Cotton would make, per acre,
from 200 to 500 lbs. more than any other
cotton now planted.
think bad better stop now, for fear that
some may think that only wish to puff
Boyd's Extra Prolific beyond its true merits
It is not 20; only write for the benefit Of
my brother cotton planters, and having civ.
en- them my honest opinion Of the value Of
this improved variety Of cotton they may
take it for what it is worth. But try it, and
you will be very likely to entertain the same
opinion. REfNARD.