Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-02-08

cent of this variety. a special interest
conferred I'm it's tendency to develop ar
thracnose. While trying TO get the real
per cent of diseased bolls in a small plat
OF only a few hundred plants, the writ :
er's attention was called to the excep.
tional variation of the different plants In
the number of diseased bolls found on
them. Having noted carefully this vari-
alton. it was thought that possibly some
plants are more resistant 70 the disease
than others. so out of the entire plat
two plants We're selected, one with only
about per cent of anthracnose and one
with 50 per cent Of the bolls infected. In
this way IL could be seen If there Is
really any difference in the hereditary
characters OF plants toward this dis
ease.
This did not seem to be a very good
showing, but among the offsprings or
the plant containing only per cent dis
ease. three plants had no disease. These
were put in as many plats and carefully
studied. One of them had $50 plants, ana
very little anthracnose indeed. In fact,
might be considered free from the much
dreaded disease. From these were Sc
lected plants that made the present Sc
lect Cooks cotton grown on the expert
mental plats OF the State College of Agri-
culture.
This year we grew from these seed
about 400 plants that are absolutely free
from anthracnose, and yielded at the
rate of more than two bales per acre. In
fact, 1850 pounds Of seed cotton and 4S
per cent lint, making actually 1,l52 pounds
OF lint cotton to the acre.
While every effort has been made to
get rid of the anthracnose, every plant
selected has yielded in addition. at least
A lint have been
discarded that did not come up to this
standard. and the consequence is that
the present crop easily yields the requir-
ed per cent.
In the entire plat work except the fer
tflizer experiments on which report Will
be made next year, there was used a
3-10-4 formula commercial fertilizer at
the rate Of $50 pounds per acre. and two
tons Of barnyard manure, all applied In
the drill row. Total cost about $3.50 per
acre. The land was broken i'm January
about IL inches with an oliver chilled
two-horse turn pillow, and left in this
rough condition exposed to the frost till
April. 1t was then leveled with drag
harrow, and put in rows, and the fertil-
izer and manure applied only a few days
before planting began. My experience
here is that other things being equal.
all cotton should be put In the ground
between Memorial day. April 26, and May
l. Cotton planted later than that fruits
quite well. but does not seem to recover
from the hurried growth at the beginning
of the season, and has not given the
yield obtained from the earlier paintings.
The total cost, aside from special work
that had been done by skilled labor in
the way Of keeping up streets between
plats. and printing and stalking land, was
about $50 per acre. That would in any
event cover the necessary cost. The
best cotton Melted at that rate little
less than 800. while the poorest in any
OF the variety test plats netted only
about $3.50 per acre. Surely one can see
how important il is to intensity farming
and make large gains on what he plants.