The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-09-14
IMPROVED COTTON SEED
Results From Them on WdxahaChie Ex-
perimeRfal Farm.

| The first thing 1 dld after getting
/ home and the roads had dried suf-
ficiently, was to visit the cotton
crop in East End OF Waxahachie
planted last spring by Odell De-
Vaughn and cultivated under the
direction of DR.. Knapp. Five acres
of this crop was fertilized, the mon
/ ey To buy which and the seed, was
contributed by business men of
| Waxah ACHE, mention of which has
| been heretofore made. Rowden,
King and Truitt varieties were
planted and five acres of the Truitt
cotton was fertilized. Mr.. J. Nj.
| Lancaster, manager of the Ferris
farms, went with me to our expert
mental farm and after carefully look
! ing IL over We are convinced Ia the
first place that fertilizing on this
black land did not pay this year and
and it is also our opinion that the
/ King cotton 10 the earliest, makes
| the best turnout Of any of the three
varieties planted. Before | went 10
| Corpus Christi we visited this farm
and the indications then were that
the Rowden was the earlier, but en-
the first days OF September there is
more OF the King cotton open, and
while the bolls Of the King are
small, yet the yield on the whole
seems to be the best, and Mr.. Lam
caster believes that the King will
yield more without fertilizing than
the Trnitt with it. In this / do not
agree with him, and II will take the
gathering and weighing OF the two
crops 10 test 1t Mr.. Bennett, one
j of the officials OF the A d NJ. Col
/ lege, came To Waxahachie last spring
! and planted eighteen or twenty va
+ rieties of early maturing cotton fer
/ Mr.. j T. Truli, who rents from Col.
as. >. Davis, and Friday morning
/ last | went out with Mr.. Davis and
I looked this cotton over. Four rows
each OF the twenty varieties had
been planted, all early maturing cot
( ton, and all except few rows has
I yielded we'll. 1t is "a perfect snow
bank nov and nearly all open. OF
this the best variety will yield at
least half bale per acre. Forty
( rows of this planting was tertilized
f by Mr.. Trult aud MIR. Davis, and
70 i'm
East End, is very little, II any bet
ter, that the unfertilized. While
this is the ease this season Col.
Davis says he will continue TO fer
tilixe several acres eaeu year. n a.
thinks possibly the seasons this
year kept the fertilizer from doing
the good tt otherwise would nave
done. South OF the Davis home.
stead on the Milford road, where
this early cotton il planted. Mr.
Davis owns another farm of 800
acres and ou To This we went. Oue
man on this farm had planted his
crop ina early maturing Indian Ter
fitoty seed Another man. also
farming ou this same place with
just a turu row between their crops
planted the old native storm proof
cotton. The man vino planted ter.
rttory seed tas already Wafkstsd
ten bales and has world 81 cotton
open ready 60 pick, wtile tbe cid
slorm proof had very t.tle open.
aud will unt, when it 10 al apeu,
yield so sell ss che territory seed
40 clearer er better gFanf eaa.8
te bad than rtxat neFa ef tne neav-
fts af planting eaFlv mstaflaE seed,
aBd every mAu pu tte Davis farms
is saving tls territory seed wIsh
whlsh ta plant another year WEtia
the territory seed BE- earlier tHaH tte
storm pFaaf stlll ou thts pAtgt wa~FF
twenty different varieties are ptaug
81 several ross of it aFe stilI mnch
EARLIER than svvn territory seed. lu
~uuth rpxas. wheFe / have hmea taF
tne past fve weeks, tb@ aHly tattan
they gather al al ts of the ssrIv
varieties. ard planted iast a. early
as possible.
cod Davis aud hls bsathaF. ulamy.
"a Place. and 30. af MtlisbaFu.
stuus tie aivlsion af tie Davis go.
tate. are ali haiitine wtee hamsss for
ths rnsu whe rent fFnm th~m. Aaa
FepNArtus ana rwE@laagnE the aia
hamams. Tel Davis FeFnAFkesH st. n
whwn me gut throuxn repairing sna
haiiainw, his men wnHla AL be lixtuA
la ssesswr huaaes thaa he himself
lived in a@fage movteg a. wAxAhAs-
haA @mwmxsl waMra M9m.