Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1917-03-02
Pedigreed PIGntinR Cotton Seed.
For Boil WeeyH Conditions

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ers raised just plain cotton
no particular cotton-just cotton
Then the soil in the South was
so fertile that any kind of cotton
would make a big crop, so there
was no need to worry about i'm,
proved cottonseed. There was
no boil weevil then and if we
ibid not make the crop in June or
July it would be made in August
or September.
Gradually, however. from the
constant taking away of plant
food from the soil year by year,
the soil lost its original, marvel
GUS fertility, and the yield Of
cotton per acre began to decrease
materially. With this falling off
in yield came an increase in pro-
duction cost, as the price of
labor, food, clothing, etc., ad-
vanced in cost.
Then it was that few intelli-
gent and progressive growers
set about to produce a strain of
cotton that would overcome
poorer soil conditions, and pro-
duce a big yield in spite of such
conditions. This was done by
selecting from an entire field on
ly such stalks as they considered
Ideal for the strain they desired
to perfect, then selecting Ideal
bolls from these stocks. Seed
thus selected was planted in a
separate plat of ground and this
same stalk and boil selection
was carried out again the follow
ing year, repeating the process
from year to year until a certain |
uniform type of cotton was the |
result, yielding far superior re-
suits to the ordinary cotton for
merly known.
Now the increasing ravages of
the boil weevil throughout the
cotton states has taught the les
son that it is only those varities
which will mature the earliest
before the weevil gets in his
work-that will produce any,
thing like a crop in infested dis
tricts. It is to these early ma.
turing varities that planters in
boil weevil territory must pin
their faith.
Does II Pay?
To plant high-priced Pedigreed
cotton seed when good, sound,
common mixed seed can be
bought for half as much?
We give below a history of
low improved cotton seed was
Introduced into a section where
hey had never planted anything
,ut common gin-run cotton seed
)efore.
A good farmer had one of his
enants to give him $1,000 and
lsk him to buy him $1,000 worth
# Cooks Improved Cotton Seed.
The farmer laughed when he Or ]
lered the seed and remarked
hat his tenant evidently had J
1000 he did not know what
lse to do with. This farmer I
eally thought the man was
hrowing away his $1,000, or at I
east part of it; this happened e
ust about year ago. Last n
christmas this farmer was asked .
low the man came out with his t
fine" seed, and he answered .
Ike a man who has been made .
0 admit that he was in the
7rong. The tenant had made a 9
ale of cotton to the acre on 3
and that he had never made .
1ore than one-quarter of a bale !,
efore. =.
This yield attracted a great :, .
cal of attention. and the far. ;.
ler, who had never bought any n
edigreed cotton seed before, = 4
aid that he had told every a
ne of his hands to sell all of =
heir seed to the oil mills, as he n
ltended to buy the Cooks I'm . :,
roved Seed for his entire place. Il
or this extra outlay of about q !,
D cents an acre, this tenant got +
ack about $50. 90 an acre. .
Such occurrences as the above ,,
re happening every year in first :, :,
ne section and another until n n
ne entire South who are so far >; ;;
ehind in their farming methods v
re beginning to realize that =,
ood cotton seed pays, and that p +
ood seed of any kind pays. .,
PATTY BROS. :. -
W. M. LAMBERsoN. -. ~
A. KLAUS & Co. '. :,
c. D. FEATHERSToN. :, D
WALTER r. pATTv