The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-08-31
DANGER OF!GIR
MIXED COTTON SEED

COTTON growers realize when they
take back seed from an ordinary
gin 70 use IN planting the next crop.
tne extent TO which their seed NAV
De mixed with the seed OF the cot
ION ginned inst previous to their
iot. Yet this matter IL Of vital i'm
portance 70 all cotton raisers who
wish to grow a uniform variety Of
cotton. AS every student OF cot
ton breeding knows, even a few
seeds OF another variety in a cotton
held may through cro~ss-fertilizs-
ton interbreeding and de-
terioration in a larger number of
plants. Instead OF getting only q
rev seeds from a neighbor's lot of
cotton, however, actual investiga-
tions by specialists of the Depart
ment OF Agriculture show that in
certain cases a lot of seed will CON
tain as much as IA to 16 per cent
OF seed left in the gin boxes from
the cotton ginned just before. In
the cases investigated not only has
there bean a large percentage of
seed from the variety ginned just
previously, but II is found that
some seeds may remain from the
second bale preceding. 1t follows.
therefore, that a grower may very
readily mix one or two other varie-
ties with his special kind of seed.
Where a grower is particular
about his seed, he can greatly mini
mize the mixing by quick, simple
and inexpensive measures in which
the average ginner will be glad to
cooperate. The following precau-
tons. which seem to be entirely
practicable and which, in fact, are
row exercised in some localities,
are strongly recommended in De-
partment Bulletin No. 2SS, Custom
Ginning As a Factor in Cotton-Seed
Deterioration, soon to be issued.
The patron should accompany to
the gin the lot of seed cotton from
which he expects to save seed for
planting, and he should aid the gin
ner in seeing that everything pos
sible is done TO prevent mixing.
He should see that the flues.
feeders, and cleaners are cleaned
as thoroughly as their construction
will permit before he allows his
seed cotton to enter them.
The roll should be dropped from
the roll box and the box should be
thoroughly cleaned. The dropping
of the roll is an operation with
| which all ginners are familiar. The
construction of the gins is such
that the roll can be dropped and
the box cleaned in a very few min
utes. Some improved gins IRE ar
ranged so that the roll box may be
emptied without stopping the gin,
tHeItnA luithtA SliApiiiyiH5 ahc Up
Grafton.
Having cleaned the machinery
up to and including the roll box,
the next step is to prevent the seed
OF the variety to be ginned from
falling into the conveyor. 1t is i'm
practicable to clean the conyeyor
satisfactorily, and therefore it
should no be used when planting
seed is to be obtained. By adjust
ing the position of the apron OF
each Gin the seed can be made to
fall upon the floor in front OF the
gin instead of into the conveyor.
From here It can be sacked easily,
The floors about the gins should
be cleaned to the extent that no
seeds are left lying around to aus
mixing. Canvas spread upon the
floor to receive the seed from the
gins is often used.
Such precautions require time in
which to carry them out effectively,
and time spent in this manner nat
urally reduces somewhat the
amount of ginning that otherwise
could be done in a day. On this
point the sinner may find cause to
base objection TO such procedure,
but il should be possible to meet
the objection by fully compensat-
ing him for the extra time consum-
"a. The expense of special gin
ming in some sections may be re-
duced by arranging to have il done
on specified days or at the close of
the season. when more time is
available. IN any event, the amount
Of money that may be required to
secure the %einner's cooperation In
the maintenance OF pure seed Is al
most n~erligible fra view Of the fav-
orabie effect such precautions viii
upon the farmers crop in sue
rsedius Years.