Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1893-02-16
GOLD DUST COTTON.
fSouthern Cultivator.

Il'OQUllClll
Believing it is our duty to let thu
light there may be on us shine,
wish to avail myself of the column.
of the Cmticator, the best Southern
agricultural paper, in lei.,.erng te
my brother farmers what l>ileve t.
be a valuable message.
Planters are all more or less famll
lar with the improved varieties o.
cotton that have been long in genera
use. The Peterkin, the Welborn':
Pet, the Herloug, etc, have beer
tried in nearly every community and
have gained more or less popularity
One of the latest claimants in this
section IS the 'Gold Dust" And
firmly believe that it works an al
vance over all other varieties as
great, if not greater, than has ever
been made at one bound by any cot
ION. believe that it is the best cot
ton ever planted.
Only one year ago my attention
was first called to this cotton in such
q way rs to induce me to investigate
it. Having seen letter from the
manager of the South Carolina ex-
pertinent station at Columbia, in
which he gave his experience with
this cotton, wrote him. He replied
very fully, describing his experiment
and conclusions and advising me, il
able to DO so, to buy seed for my
Whole crop lie said that it was "by
far the best cotton he had ever seen" :"
On one-halt acre only nalf manured,
he made a good bale. This and all
his other varieties came up late in
June, and the Gold Dust had, when
, the frost come October Sth, matpred
every boil; while the other varieties
were caught with about one-half
their crop unmade-
] further found tha: every man
that had ever tried the Gold Dust,
had Tor it only praise of the highest
kind. SO, though | had never seen
stalk of it, nor a man who had, |
decided to buy enough seed to plant
my whole crop. "a r1sh venture, .
DO you say? | reasoned that if it
was only half as good is its friends
said, | would make t..ice as much as
| had eser done with the Peterkin or
the Pet and would doubtless find
ready sale for my seed at good
price. To secure the best | bought
seed two and three years old, planted
separate from any other cotton.
When my cotton began to put on
forms it attracted attention. Neigh
bors from far and near came TO see
it, and every one said that be had
never seen anything like it. The
limbs came ont right atthe ground,
grew quite long and averaged at1east
one for every inch of height OF stalk.
The forms were very closely crowded
on every limb and all the way from
stalk to end OF limb. Stalks three
feet high with 200 to 500 forms were
common enough.
When the DOLLS began to near
maturity every one was struck with
their great size. Mr.. G&illiard com
pared it IN this respect with his other
varieties and found that while the
Others took about 100 bolls to make
4 pound, 100 bolls of Gold Dust gave
the unprecedented yield of enc pound
ten ounces.
How about the yield Of lint? The
seed are large and the lint not longer
than usual, so one would hardly
expect an unusual yield. From
thirty-four to forty per cent is about
what IS claimed for it; yet see from
all quarters much better returns than
that. One report gives forty-four
The fine body and longness of lint
is another valuable feature. | sold
it to the most experienced buye.' in
Sumter, one of the best judges in the
State, and he said that it had the
best body he had ever seen on any
cotton. All I sold has brought the
top OF the market. The Gold Dust
will make crop in three or four
weeks less time than any other |
know anything about. =
These, then, are the pointsln which
the Gold Dust has proved-its superi-
ority to all others: Quickness of
growth, sureness of crop, earliness,
number and length of limbs, number
and size of bolls, ease in picking,
turn out at the gin, fneness and tough
ness OF lint, ability to stand bad wea-
ther, large yield per acre. H.w.B.
Mayesville, S. G..