Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-12-23
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FARMERS URGED
Communities Advised to Plant Same
Variety Of Cotton-Care Should
Be Used In Seed Selection.

1t will be remembered that some
time back | had little article in
The Eagle setting forth "A few of
the advantages to be derived from
the farmers OF the same section, espe-
cially from the same gin community,
planting and raising the same kind
of cotton. Since writing that article
| have received many endorsements
of the plan from leading farmers
from all over this country, and espe-
cially from ginners. The ginners say
that such co operation would save
them (the ginners) a great deal of
trouble in trying to keep different
varieties OF seed from getting mixed.
They also state that it is a matter
of impossibility for cotton seed to
keep from mixing in the ginning, II
one man raises one kind OF cotton
and his neighbor raises another kind,
and they are both to use the same
gin. Now since the great flood has
come and destroyed the bulk of the
cotton seed that the farmers in the
! bottoms had stored away for planting
seed, they will be compelled to buy
seed to plant next year Now | ask
/ the farmers, especially the Brazos
/ bottom farmers. are they going to buy
/ just anything they can get just so
they are cheap and are called cotton
seed? Or are they going to buy the
very best seed that can be had. seed
that are of the very best variety and
are guaranteed to be pure and sound
although you have to give two dollars
for the one while you can get the
other for one dollar? AS a general
thing the large planter has hereto
fore been too careless as to the seed
he plants of both corn and cotton.
But now is a specially good time to
get started on pure seed. especially
cotton. Let all the farmers of each
community get together, make out
the amount of seed each one is going
to have to plant and APPOINT some good
man. or committee of men, to buy
these seed and buy them in carload
lots. Let that committee go If neces
: sary to the men who have seed fol
sale and let them see for themselve:
what sort of guarantee under which
seed can be bought. 1t will not cos
much and may save thousands. VIVA
would be the advantage if every acr'
in whole Brazos bottom farm o
5 community could be made to produc,
100 pounds more of seed cotton? Sucl
things are very easily done, and Their,
Is no easier way on earth to do 1
than in planting good seed. M.
warning is, that II the farmers dom
|. mind they are going to be well hum
4 bugged in the purchase of cotton seed
. because there will be so many to b,
? bought, that seed men who are no
absolutely reliable will impose upol
2 the farmers good and proper. | hav
quotations from two or three see
men whom | think are reliable an,
. will furnish any farmer or number o
i farmers their addresses on applica
Q ton. If owned a Brazos bottom
. farm | would hire an expert seed mai
: whose business it would be the yea
round to select my seed of both cor
u and cotton in the field, and while
know I would have to pay such
man good wages, l would conside
him the best investment on my Who'll
farm. While you have to buy cotto
seed buy the best and all buy tn
= same variety.
A. w. BUCHANAN,
Farm Demonstration Agent.