The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-11
GREAT SUCCESS OF THE BOWERS & FRANKLIN COTTON SEED CULLER
How It Will Augment Birmingham's Industrial and Financial Greatness and the Prosperity
 of the City Otherwise

Without flourish of trumpes and without asking for any bonus from the Chamber of Commerce. The Cotton Seed and Cotton Improvement Association was quietly organized last October with authorized capital stock of $0ooO0 and tablshed general offices in the Empire Building.
 The Company, which has acquired exclusive ownership of all patents covering the Bowers Franklin Cotton Seed Cutler began manufacture machine planning for it's installation the gins throughout the cotton belt Since then it's has remarkable say astounding in this city of mammoth industries and grand enterprises and the officers of the company that plant for the manufacture of the machine large scale will be erected due course of me Ths however, is only of the many benefits which Birmingham will derive from the operations of the company All of these will be apparent when the reader learns that the Bowers Franklin Cotton Seed Cutler chine which has rival the greatest agricultural field of the wordhe cotton growing countresand enables every only produce cotton less land than he has here planted but also superior grade of cotton and does this without subecng the any additional expense in fact pays him premium for using the machine This surprising statement but it is the last letter. and as verified, bedrock fact
 The Bowers Franklin Cotton Seed Cutler invented the demand for scientific selecon nsstenty rg ed by the late Dr. Seaman A. Knapp chief officer charge the Farmers Cooperative Demonstration work in the cotton belt and by the agricultural colleges and experiment of the South The machine makes the selection of planting with absolute accuracy-ar better indeed than can be done by the skilled hand The of uniform weight and strong vitality only giving plants power to resist climatic and other unfavorabe conditions ing them fruit freely The seed obtained from this improved growth rich oil and command the best prices at the mills Thus the farmer the ganer every way by this nvenon which opened new era of prosperity for him.
 The hya a of of ing Alabama and Georgia and all who have work their endorsement of it. Farmers gnner cotton seed oil men, bankers merchants and editors unite in the opinion that it of the greatest inventions of the day. and will powerful factor in creating wealth for the South
 In view of the foregoing the of the company will be accepted matter of In their general offices hangs map of Alabama that is with dots showing points where the machines will be in operation this fall and the calls for them from adjoining states and from the borders of the cotton belt growing in volume all the time Indeed the company could install at this writing three many machines its present facilities for manufacturing will allow And this beginning When OOO gnneres of the Cotton States of America have been equipped with these cnes Egypt India and other cotton growing lands will be open for their introduction.
 As the machine is installed the royalty basis and has earning capacity 50 dayO per cent of the amount being retained by the gnner who operates it. and 60 per $0 coming the company for full days by one machinehe amount of money which will flow Bir1ning- ham be used in manufacturing operations the purchase supplies and distributed in dividends stockholders and also furnish capital with which build up the city, scarcely be estimated.
 | The Cotton Seed and Cotton Improvement Association will the financial bulwarks of the city Indeed it already that, potentially.
 The company that its books open for sub scrton to limited number of shares of its treasury stoc the par value of $00, full paid and on-assessable
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