The log cabin Democrat., 1909-02-25
FARMER AND PLANTER
PRIMITIVE AND MODERN COTTON
Cotton from Mexico-Origin of lm- portant variety-Has Many Differ ent Names-AII from Same
 Stock.

nOOQ 1OllOWeQ any OlueI NOCdtloii tiih farming Not a single side issue have l ever had in any way connected with my farming operations. And the pur. pose l have in view is to give your many readers my knowledge and ex perience of cultivating cotton.
 When a boy some sixty years ago recollect rowing over my fathers farm here in Troup county and listening to the controversies of the middle aged men, discussing cotton culture. There was then no variety used but that call ed Green Seed" very inferior vari- ety Small bolls, only partially open. ing and extremely late in it's maturity
 Cotton From Mexico.
 I recollect well when the report was being circulated that Q new varie- ty of cotton had been landed at Col umbus, Ga, from Mexico, called the Mexican Burr" cotton. Everybody hurried off to Columbus to procure seed. A warehouse and steamboat man named Gilmer had the seed i'm poi ted to him from Mexico, it being brought over the western plains oI broncos to the seaport of Texas thence by water to the mouth Of the Apalachicola and OH up the Chattahoo chee to Columbus. All who could go a small quantity of the seed until the supply was exhausted.
 Then enthusiasm prevailed at high pitch, and no pains was spared in at tention to the cultivation. And witt the primitive mode of cultivation the results were more than satisfactory Compared with the Green Seed the Mexican Burr" was and is today 9 very excellent variety, much of it be ing yet planted in some localities, ano see it advertised for sale.
 Then came next variety from the west called Texas Storm Proof" its rame making it popular. as the "MeN can Burr was easily blown out, mucL of it being destroyed. storm Proof is yet to be found out west and l stil zee it advertised for sale.
 More New Varieties.
 Next came "Dixon Cluster" "AlleI Prolific" Money Bush," and "Hel long Green Seed" The first namel three varieties were about the samt in appearance and habits both as tt growth and development and there was considerable improvement as t( yield
 The Horlong may be an offspring of the primitive Green Seed. as the color of the seed is the same, but l so there is a very great change il yield and growth. The seed are mucf larger and the foliage is more portly A variety was also introduced b! name "Nankin Cotton" with pale vel low seed, medium size, but line vel low Not a very prodctive cotton but planted to some extent purposel! on account of its indelible color. l was used mainly for making Sunda. clothes for both men and boys. / full suit of Nankin cloth spun and woV en at home made a tasty dress. I'm variety is now about abandoned. This brings us up to the latter fiji | ties when the civil war completely de moralized agriculture, and kept 1t dol mant in a manner for several years | During the interval l rode horsebac to the farm of Colonel David Nixon il Hancock county, then considered tn foremost cotton farmer in Georgia t | inspect his operations and get cotto seed His mode of farming and infol nation he gave to me well paid m for the trip. I used the Dixon variet then until about 1877 when l was il formed of a very superior cottor | growing in Meriwether county on tn | plantation of a MT Wyche, an eldel ly gentleman, who some time previou | had obtained a few seed from Algerii where 'tis said the finest cotton in tn 1 world is made This is French terr | tory, where France had colonies fC agricultural and horticultural purpose | on the coast of the Mediterranean Sc | just east of Morocco.
 Origin of Important Variety.
 In the early fifties two German lad emigrated to Algeria, where they e, | pected to join the French colony fC more remunerative service than the | native land afforded. On their arrivt | at their adopted home they engage in farming and, among other thing | cotton cultivation. After a short sta one of them returned to Germany an | then emigrated to America, landin l at Charleston, s. C., and seeking hi favored occupation. he had come the country where he found cotton on of the principal farm products. Se
 ing 1t so inferior to the varieties Algeria, he sent back for some see'