The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1893-09-27
LlNTLESS COTTON.
xrW VARIETY or THE FLEECY
STAPLE.

the Farmers.
Mr.. J. NJ. Farr, of Cameron, is grow
iua new kind of cotton.
# is the linGless variety, and Mr.. Fan
thinks that it will become popular in
This section.
He has quarter of IN acre in this new
cotton. which he planted very late, on
,be Goth of April, and notwithstanding
the little work and small amount of fer
hlzers that were given the plant, Mr..
Farr says it has reached the height as a
standard remunerative crop, and bids
fair to reach beyond the limit of our
GREAT agricultural sphere. The plant is
identicaIly the same as other cotton so
far as the plant iUselt is concerned, but
the bolls, instead of being full of lint and
seed. nature has packed them vely neat
" with nothing but seed, averaging 20
TO the boil, and totally without single
trace of lint of any description. The
seed are black when matured; it does
not rust; wet or dry weather, to any ex-
IRENE or degree, does not injure it in the
least, and it will yield from 400 to 500
bushels of seed to the acre on good land.
While the plant is not very tall, owing
tolttle attention an little fertilizer, it is
of medium height and full of grown
bols. The seed of the lintless cotton
has larger per cent of oil than other
cotton seed. as it has no lint to feed. and
retains all of It's properties, consequent
" it should demand higher price than
our lint DC airing cotton seed, besides
being more valuable to our oil manufac-
turers, on account of its superior quail
ty and prOductiveness.
In harvesting, the boil is pulled,
or the whole stalk may be pulled up and
hauled and stored in dry house, where
the hollis will soon pop open, thus max
ing the threshingg process very little
trouble. Before harvesting the plant
should topped and in few days the
bolls will turn yellow and speckled, and
at this stage should be harvested as above |
stated. When the hollis are green the |
seed are white, and if pulled at this
stage they will turn black as when al
lowed to remain on the plant until ma
tured.
In discussing the merits of this lintless
cotton Mr. Far said:
II have experiments with and cultlVat-
ed this plant until am perfectly satlSned
with it's productiveness and quality, and
it is far superior in every respect to our
lint bearing varieties, not to say any
thing about the ginning, etc., and re-
ceive cents per pound for your trouble
and product. We will suppose the yield
to be half and the price Of seed to be
half Of what it was last spring, We would
realize $43. IS per acre on our poorest
land.
Now, this estimate is at least % per
cent too low, considering everything TO
be at its worst. Suppose we make the
highest estimate at our asst spring prices,
we have S75 per acre Farmers, is this
not worth your deepest confederation?
We can leave half of the yield per acre
on the land as fertilizer, gather ssthe
other half and at 20 cents bushel fol
cotton seed we have $50 per acre; this is
another very low estimate. l believe
this plant will be cultivated largely IN
the near future, and L shall spare no
trouble to introduce what call a long
telt want and boon to our farmers
Il have few specimens l expect to
take to the state fair in Augusta this fail
and give those chance to see the true
lintless cotton who have not seen any
of my writings or samples"