The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-01-04
WONDERFUL NEW COTTON
4 Georgia Farmer Made Over
Four Bales to the Acre
Mr.. Henry S. Reed, Manager and Ldi-
tor of the Cotton Journal, Published
at Atlanta, Sends the
That VIII interest Every Reader
Who Lives i'm Cotton Territory.

"A new variety of cotton has been
discovered and developed which shows
perfetc a~dapability to the various
soils and conditions of the cotton belt
and those farmers who planted it in
1905 claim it actually doubles the
yield Of the varieties given the same
attention in all ways. Such a state
ment is indeed startling and plainly
indicates the profit to be derived from
cotton growing in the future. With
a variety of cotton producing twenty
five to fifty percent more lint to the
acre thar is customary, and cotton
selling for fifteen cents a pound as at
present, the conditions Of he cotton
belt and the prosperity of the COM
non Ttrmers Will be improved to such
an extent there will be no ''distress
cotton" to glut the market in October,
November and December of Zach year
and thus hammer down the price OF
cotton grown on self-sustaining plan
tations.
The variety of cotton capable of
doing this If testimonials from we'll
known and Influential farmers can be
depended GRAND THEY CAN BE
TRUDTED-nas a peculiar history.
1t seems a man in Spalding County,
Ga, purchased some green coffee "a
few years and in this coffee he
discovered seed, not coffee grains,
AN = MS IL
were cotton seed. and maybe came
from South America, from some West
Indian Island or from Brazil. No one
knows where they came from. They
came from the land rodupcfng tie
coffee it is reasonable to presume.
AT all events the man planted the seed
and produced seven stalks of cotton
SO wonderful in fruitage they attract
ed in q local way. and in
1908 there was enough produced to
furnish several farmers with q limit
ed quantity of seed.
The result OF the 1909 planting has
been almost beyond belief. Other
varieties of improved cotton planted
side by side fell Sc far short Of this
new kind, which by the way has been
named poor mans FRIEND" that
really comparisons are, in many cases
out of the question. A pound con-
tains $3.50 seed, it turns out nearly
fifty Per cent lint and the lint meas
ures nearly one sixteenth of an inch
longer than good upland middling
cotton and it yields a bale to the acre
on renters land, that never produced
more than one third of a bale before.
Wonders will never cease. The air
ship is wonderful, but the production
of two pounds Of cotton where one
was produced before and that too
tho any extra cost in any way is
more wonderful and greater benefit
to humanity than the airship an
wireless t~elegraphy combined.
"Mr. W. H. Strickland, a farmer
near Griffin, planted two acres with
poor mans cotton seed" in 1909 and
used W hundred pounds Of fertilizer
to the acre. In writing, he says: 81
will get five bales from this two-acre
patch, would have made from six tc
seven bales, but the hot wind cut il
rfe" This field Of cotton was visited
on December Sth by Prof. J. NJ. John.
son., formerly Professor Of Agricul.
ture, University of Georgia, e. E
Walcott of Griffin, and Henry S. Reet
of Atlanta, Ga. Mr.. Strickland in,
formed these gentlemen he had gath.
cred from the field four and a hal
bales. Messrs. Johnson, Walcott ant
Reed make the FOLLOWING statement
"There was at least twenty-five pei
cent of the crop unopened. Mr.
Strickland had another improved
strain of cotton in this field, the sam
kind Of land, and it had the same fer
tilizer and cultivation, and we ca,
truly say that the poor mans friend
had more than twice the fruit of tn.
other"