The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1909-09-29
MARVELLOUS SUCCESS MADE BY
TEXAS FARMER NEAR HOUSTON.
WIN Raise Two Bales to the Acre Il
Spite Of Boil WeeyiI'
A Farming Story Which Reads Like
Gold Brick Romance.

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and May this year, without using
a pound Of fertilizer or having any
irrigation during a very dry sum-
mer, Mr.. George M. Snodgrass has
grown a stand of cotton which
amazes the experts, who declare
their belief the two acres will
produce more cotton than any other
two acres in Texas this year.
They 60 further. saying that but
for the ravages Of the boil We
Mr.. Snodgrass' cotton patch would
have made from four to six bales
Of cotton to the acre.
Mr.. Snodgrass says his success is.
the result of a system of planting
and cultivation which he originat ted
his secret, which he believes will
revolutionize the cotton business Of
the South, doubling the crop on the
same number of acres in spite Of
the boil weevil. incidentally, Mr..
Snodgrass expects to acquire a for
tune by selling to cotton growers
the secret Of his method Of plant-
ing and cultivation.
CALLS IT BUNCH SYSTEM.
Before setting down my own inn
pressions Of the patch and the man
that made it. wish to present his
own statement, containing all the
information he cares now to give
to the public, and the statements
of several Houstonians who have
visited the farm and seen the cot
ton. Mr.. Snodgrass says:
My bunch system Of cotton cul-
ture is now perfected, and / am
ready to offer it to the cotton
growing world, as one Of the most
scientific plans known to modern
farming. The cotton is planted in
very wide rows and in buHches.
The preparation Of the land and
the cultivation Of the cotton is the
key to the plan. | can raise a big
crop with one-fourth the rainfall
that is required under the old sys-
tenn. There is no cotton chopping
to do. You save nine-tenths of
your planting seed. One man and
one team can raise more cotton
than three men and three teams
under the old system, now in use
generally. One acre of good land
will yield from two to three times
as much, under my plan, as it will
yield under the old plan. If the
grower will use a small amount Of
fertilizer with my system, from 81.
to $4 worth per acre, he can grow
from two to five bales of cotton to
the acre, according to the quality
Of the land. My system gives
about $500 more big stalks to the
acre, that will yield from one to
two pounds of seed cotton to the
stalk. My plan will keep the cot
ton growing all the season. up to
frost. Hot sunshine, shaWery
weather or drought will not cause
cotton planted under my plan to
shed bolls and forms.
If you have land where cotton
takes the wilt and dies, | can give
you a remedy that costs ST per acre
that will stop every bit of wilt
with one application; in bad cases
two applications may be necessary.
My plan also improves your land,
bringing it back into healthy con-
dition and making good crop at
the same time.
SUCCESS UNDER FACULTIES
To demonstrate the power Of
my system. selected common. poor
sod land, that takes two and one
half acres to make bale Of cotton
under the old method Of planting.
and cultivation. and have grown on
this land cotton stalks large enough
to make five bales to the acre, and
in one of the worst drouahts we
have had for thirty years. Count
ing the cotton have already pick
led. and the cotton now open, the
grown bolAs and the half-grown
hoIls, / now have at the rate of two
bales to the acre. The cotton is
also full Of squares and blooms. If
it continues to put on forms at the