The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-02-22
wonderful Cotton.

wonderful Cotton,
Attention IL called to the advertise
ment In to.day's HERALD of "Cheat-
hams Champion Prolific Double
Boiled Cotton.n This cotton has been
brought TO It's present perfection by
careful study and scientific expert
ments, aud to look at the specimens
which have been exhibited in The
HERALD Office, IL Ii the most wonder
full production in the way Of cotton
that has ever been seen. One stalk,
upon which were fifty-three hollis, was
very beautiful In appearance, and
seemed more like an artificial arrange
ment than natural production. The
stalk could not be seen, and only here
aud there could the open pods be dis
covered, so completely were they hid
by the cotton which they had pro-
duced.
We have in our time seen good
many fancy cottons, and known of
many prolific kinds, the fame of which
was trumpeted throughout the South
for a while, but were soon forgotten he
cause of their entire worthlesness for
general practical purposes. This Cheat
ham Prolific comes, however, with
such recommendation that we are led
to look most favorably upon it.
The Columbus (South Carolina) Reg
lister of September 22d gives an account
of visit to the place Of Mr.. James Nj.
Crawford, who had planted the
Cheatham cotton. We quote from
that paper:
"Having heard accounts of Mr..
James NJ, Crawford's extraordinary
cotton, we went up to his place in the
upper part of the city, Monday after
noon, to see for ourselves, We found
measured acre loaded down with
fruit, the limbs 1lattened and some
broken with the weight. There are
so rows, 20 hills to the row, and 9
stalks to the hill. That will give 1000
stalks. 1t has been computed that the
stalks will average rs bolls each. If
this estimate holds good, Mr.. Craw-
ford will have 525, 900 bolls. OF course,
the number of bolls is yet undeter-
mined. a close approximation to the
number could be made by counting
the plants in few rows of each quail
ity of the cotton, and estimating ac-
cordingly. The cotton is as remark
able for the size of the hollis rs for their
number. AS an instance Of number,
we counted thirty-five heavy hollis on
n section of fifteen inches of stalk, the
whole height of stalk being four feet.
AS an evidence of weight, we witness
ed the picking out of seventy-six bolls
by Mr.. Crawford, and weighed the
cotton from them ourselves, The
weight was one pound four ounces
Some allowance ought to be made for
slight dampness remaining from the
rain of the day before, but there can be
no doubt, we think, that seyenty-five
good bolls of this cotton will weigh one
pound throughout the picking season.
1t takes one hundred and twenty bolls
of ordinary cotton to make pound"
The Charleston (South Carolina)
News, the Sparta Georgia. Times and
Planter, and humble of South Caro-
lima and Georgia papers, have equally
as favorable notices as the one we
have quoted. We have read great
many certificates from those who pur-
chased the seed of this cotton and
planted it, all of the same tenor, tn at
the cotton will average nearly a pound
to the stalk, and Is the best cotton ever
offered to the public. All agree it is
the heaviest fruited cotton that they
ever planted, or saw planted, and If
there is any fault to find, it lies IN the
fact that the yield is so great as in
many instances to break down the
stalk.
The cotton has produced five bales
to the acre, and therefore is a saving
of ground, labor for man and beast,
and will enable the farmer to make
an abundance of the staple, and so
diversity his crops as to be of the great
est advantage to him. Where such
yield has been obtained it was OH
comparatively poor soil, enriched by
manures and fertilizers, and we all
know that crops grown on land thus
enriched will not stand u drought as
well as those raised on naturally fer
tile aud productive soils.
The samples of hollis of this cotton
can be seen at the Grange Agency,
next door to the Postotlice, Main
street, for the next three days, and we
would advise our granger friends to
see them.