The Mena weekly star., 1912-04-11

]" SbOtoL NdliClJ iS ilOSJ ilHpOItdHl, because it is an essential in com batting the boil weevil.
 Trice, Rublee, Kings Improved, Kings Extra Early, Sugar Loaf, Simpkins' Prolific and Bank Ac- count combine the qualities of ear- Illness and ability to yield. Cleveland Big Boil, Cooks Improved and Me- bane Triumph are high yielders, but are later maturing. The fol- lowing descriptions may be of some aid in the selection of a good va riety:
 Results of Variety Test of Cotton at
 Mena Sub-Station.
 An increase of Sl3.40 per acre in returns is the advantage shown by the better over the poorer varieties of cotton in the test last year at the Mena sub-station of the Arkan- sas Experiment Station. Forty five varieties were included in this test in order to find those varieties best suited to conditions in this general section of the state.
 The varieties grown here have been tested for four consecutive years in five different sections of the state. A group of about ten varieties has continuously stood at the head of the list in yield per acre, while another group of about ten varieties has always stood at the bottom of the list in produc- tion. The remaining 25 varieties have always occupied the interme- diate places between the best ten and the poorest ten varieties.
 The average yield for the best ten varieties at the Mena sub-sta- tion in 1911 was i,259 pounds of seed cotton per acre. The average for the ten poorest varieties was S55 pounds per acre. This shows difference of 404 pounds per acre in favor of the best ten varieties.
 Four hundred and four pounds of seed cotton will contain i3i pounds of lint, which, at 10 cents per pound, is worth Si3.l0. This Si3.40 is the increase in returns from each acre due to the growth of the best varieties, rather than the poorest.
 It costs no more to plant good seed. It costs no more to cultivate the crop. Why not get the advant- age of the best variety?
 Cotton is an expensive crop to grow. Do you know that you are getting the maximum returns for the time and labor you are spending in producing a crop? The growth of a good variety may by itself in- crease the returns from each by as much or more than Si3.l0. Are you one of the best varieties? If you do not know, why not try to find out? An increase of Sl3.40 per acre will add Si,3i0 to the net profits on one hundred acres.
 Following is a description of few of the best varieties:
 Trice-Medium sized plant, short jointed, very early, 79 bolls make one pound of seed cotton.
 Rublee-Tall, slender plant, light foliage, leaves fall early, short limbs, early, 83 bolls per pound of seed cotton.
 Kings Early, Kings Eextra Early and Bank Account-Medium sized plants, fine limbs, rather long jointed, light foliage, very early, 96 bolls to the pound of seed cotton.
 Sugar L0af-Small plant, light foliage, extra early, ST bolls per pound of seed cotton.
 Simpkins' Proliiic-Small plant, small limbs, light foliage, extra early, i08 bolls per pound.
 Cleveland Big Boil, Cooks Im- proved and Mebane Triumph Large plants, heavy foliage, only medium in time of maturity, 6S bolls weigh one pound.
 Where Seed May Be Secured.
 Trice, G. A. Eason, R. F. D. No. f, Bells, Tenn.
 Rublee, Arkansas Experimental Fayetteville. Supply this year exhausted).
 Kings Improved, Iredel Test Farm, Statesville, N. c.
 Kings Extra Early and Bank Ac- count, H. c. Hastings, Atlanta, Ga.
 Sugar Loaf, Sugar Loaf Cotton Farm, Youngsville, N. c.
 Simpkins' Prolific, W. A. Simp- kins, Raleigh, N. c.
 Cleveland Big Boil, ]. R. Cleve- land, Decatur, Miss.
 Cooks Improved, J. R. Cook, El- laville, Ga.
 Mebane Triumph. A. D. Mebane. Tex.
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