The Prescott daily news., 1917-03-22
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 Little Rock, March 19.-I have or dered one ton of the Page cotton seed shipped from the Page & Hart farm in Jackson county, to my office in Lit tie Rock, for the purpose of distribu- tion among the farmers of the state for experiment. The seed will be put up in one-pound packages, and will be sent out to those who apply and agree to properly plant and cultivate and return an equal amount of we'll select ed seed next fall, to be distributed to other farmers. There will be 2.OOO packages to be sent in the order of the requests until the supply is exhausted.
 The Page cotton was given the name by G. w. Norris, who has been grow ing it upon the Page & Hart farm in Jackson county. It is little earlier than the Rowden, makes sturdy. we'll built stalk, well fruited, and is on the big boil type. It has staple of 1-16 to 1 Is inch and zine 36 to 3S per cent lint. It yields about thirty per cent more lint to the acre than the Express sand sells for about twenty per cent less per pound. The cotton holds we'll in the bolls, but is not storm proof. It yields we'll. In 1915 we made three bales on two acres. In 1916 we made ten bales on ten acres. On two rows of equal length, standing side by side, one row of the Page cot ton weighed out III pounds, and the other of Express cotton weighed out "A pounds of seed cotton. The seed is pure. with no boil weevil or diseased cotton of any kind grown on the place. As new feature of service 1 am going to install for the farmers. I am now making arrangements to estab- | fish free want, exchange and for sale list, to be posted on bulletin boards in all the principal towns of the state. The first bulletins will be posted at the court house in all the county seats and as soon as our fertilizer and feed inspectors can reach the other towns the service will be extended to all the towns made by them, which will in clude practically all of the railroad towns and many off the railroads. In fact, we will extend the service to any point where requested if some public spirited man will agree to put up a | bulletin board and post the bulletins as we issue them. The plan of opera tion will be for any farmer anywhere | in the state to write me what he has for sale, for exchange, or wants to buy. I will put these requests to- gether in a bulletin, which will be sent to all the county seat towns and a great many others, where the list will be posted These lists will be re- newed once a month, or possibly once week, if necessary, and will be the means of making the wants and needs of farmesr known to each other and the public. Anything produced on the farm or needed on the farm may be listed. Farmers wives who have but ter and eggs to sell may list these articles and it may be the means of establishing permanent contracts with towns people. There are plenty of customers in towns and cities who would contract for weekly shipments of butter and eggs by the year, and the shipments could be delivered by parcel post So send in what you have to sell, in the way of planting seed, live stock poultry, eggs, butter, home cured hams and bacon, farm imple- ments or anything else on the farm, and also make your wants known II you are in need of anything or want to exchange one thing for another
 JOHN H. PAGE,
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