The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-26
NEW VARIETY IF
 COTTON FOUND Georgia Van Discovers Cotton of Very Prolific Kind PROVEN BY TX RI EMS statement by Responsible Men Says This Cotton VIII Make Double the Amount Per Acre of the
 Ordinary Kind.

Atianta, December 25.-(Special.)-A VA rlety of cotton has been discovered and developed which shows perfect adantab,,- i.s to ,he varous soils and conditions of 'ne cotton belt and those farmers who planted 1t in 1909 claim it actually doubles the yield of other varieties given th i. same attention in all ways. Such a stata. ment is indeed startling and plainly in- oicates the profit to be derived from col ton growing in the future With A variet,- or cotton producing 20 to 80 per cent mora lint to the acre than is customary. and cotton selling for 15 cents A. pound as at present the conditions of the cotton belt and the prosperity of the common farmers will be improved to such an ex- tent there will be no 'distress cotton, to glut the market in October. Novem- Der and December of each year and thus hammer down the price of cotton grown on self-sustaining plantations
 The variety of cotton capable of do- ing this. if testimonials from well-known farmers can be depended upon, has a peculiar history It seems a man in spalding county, Georgia. purchased soma
 
 coffee he discovered seed. not coffea grains. which attracted his attention. They were cotton seed, and may be came from South America, from some West Indian island or from Brazil. No one knows where they came from. They cama from the land producing the coffee it is reasonable to presume. At all events the man planted the seed and produced seven stalks of cotton 50 wonderful in fruitase they attracted attention in. local way. and in 1909 there was enough produced to quantity of seed.
 The result of the 1909 planting has beer, almost beyond belief. Other varieties of improved cotton planted side by side fell so far short of this new kind, which hv the way has been named Poor Mans Friend that really comparisons are. in many cases, out of tho question. A pound contains 5560 seed. It turns ont nearly 50 per cent lint and the lint meas ures nearly one-sixteenth of an inch long CT than good upland middling cotton and 1t yields a bale 10 tho acre on renter s land, that never produced more than one third of bale before. Wonders will never cease. The airship is wonderful, but the production of two pounds of cot ton where one was produced before and that. too, without any extra cost in any way is more wonderful and of greater benefit to humanity than the airship and wireless te1egraphy combined.
 MT. W. H. Strickland. farmer near Griffin, planted two acres with Poor Mans Frind" cotton seed in 1909 and use 200 pounds of fertilizer to the acre. In writing he says: T will get five bales from this two-acre patch. would have made from six to seven bales but the hot wind cut 1t off" This field of cotton was visited on December by Prof J. NJ. Johnson, formerly professor of agricui- ture, University of Georgia E. E. Wal colt of Griffin, and Harry S. Reed of Atlanta. MT. Strickland informed these gentlemen he had gathered four and z half bales Messrs. Johnson. Walcott and Reed make the following statement. "There was at least 25 per cent of the crop unopened. MT. Strickland had an- other improved strain of cotton in this field, on the same kind of land and it had the same Fertilization and cultiva- tion. and we can truly say that the Poor Mans Friend variety had more than twice the fruit of the other"