Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-03-09
GROW MORE COTTON 0N SAME ACREAGE.
South Must Produce Food Which Ne eessitates Limiting Acreage
 of Staple.
Ely w. E. Ayers, Arkansas Expert. ment Station.

l some to spare. This necesSitateS lin
 iting the cotton acreage at least to
 the acreage planted tkis year. How
 ever every effort to increase the cot
 ton yields per acre is the farmers
 duty i'll order to meet the worlds
 needs since four short crops have re-
 duced the visible supply of cotton
 very materially. If naked Europe IS i to be clothed the world consumption 1 or American cotton with transporta-
 tion restored within the next two or
 three years will be at least two mil
 lion bales greater than the possible
 supply, unless the Southern farmers
 do their utmost to make every acre yield it's maximum There are three
 means of increasing the production 1 without increasing the acreage. The , use of better seed; letter culture
 methods, and a freer use of fertiliz- CTS. Good seed must be able to ger
 minats if properly planted-and of q productive. and profitable variety. Produce Better Cotton.
 l From data presented in Bulletin
 No. 1o7 on 5S experiments with cot ton varieties, the following conclus- i, ions are made:
 Good varieties of cotton will plo-
 duce for the state products worth
 $75,0OO,O00 more annually than poor ones and $25,O0O.0OO more than aver
 age ones.
 l Good varieties alone will increase the value of the entire cotton crop
 of the South $230,O00,0OO annually. It pays to plant well-bred seed of a
 good variety.
 Varieties which consistently yield /, we'll are more desirable than those which occasionally yield extremely we'll out often produce poorly
 The following nine varieties cou1d
 profitably replace the "ninety-nine"
 now used in the state: Short staple, medium early-Cleveland, Rublee, Triumph. Very early, small boiled, short staple, Trice. Very early, small 1 boiled, long staple-Express. Me- dium early, big bolled-"benders" "- Rowden and Lone Star. Medium ear ly, big boiled, long staple-Foster and l Webber. Use Variety Best Suited To Soil. On the hill and thin valley lands | of northwest Arkansas Trice, Cleve-
 land, and early strains of Triumph
 are the most satisfactory short varie- ties. Express and early strains of
 Webber are the best long staples. hn ;x NP :, this section are adapted to staple cot
 ton. Express and early strains of
 Foster and Webber will give good re- . suits. If short varieties are desired. ] Trice and dwarf strains of Cleveland
 and Triumph are to be recommended,
 On the better soils of west-central.
 central and east-central Arkansas,
 Express, Foster. and Webber are the
 best staple varieties. With heavy
 boil weevl infestation early strafns
 of the latter two must be used If
 "benders" are desired, Rowden and
 Lone Star will give inc best results. I Cleveland and early strains of Tri- l umph are best short varieties for tho
 above conditions. For the poorer soils of this portion of ths state, Trice, I Rublee, and Cleveland are good pro- Il ducers, Express or Webber should he l used on the hill lands if long staple cotton is produced.
 For the thin soils of the southern
 third of the state. Trtce, Rublee and ] Cleveland will give best results. On the better soils the long staple varie- ties, Express, Foster and Webber l give good results. Triumph. Rowden and Lone Star will also do well under i the latter conditions.
 Il At present prices of cotton goods the mills can make enormous pronts | on middling cotton at fifty cents a
 pound. Cotton clothes the poor and
 middle classes. It is a product for
 which there Is no substitute nearSy so cheap. The world must have it and will have it even at much higher prices than are now quoted. As socn
 as shipping is available there will be such a demand In Europe for cotton as never before existed. The Gen. tral Empires alone have an accumu- lated demand for i've or six million bales. Liverpool is shorter of cotton than it has been in 9 years. There is practically no cotton. cloth, or thread in any Of the Scandinavia'.
 countries.
 The, yield of American cotton for the last four years has been 6,ooo.- 900 bales less than normal cOnsump- tion. A fifth short crop will be little
 less than world disaster. After food ! and feed supplies are provided South ern farmers cannot produce too much cotton in 1919. For profitable yields good seed are essential.
 Good planting seed is scarcer than ever ,his spring. il'here are two req sons why this is tlue: In the, first place about half of this seasons |' ,,D~ ;e ,uEt for vi,rt;ny hocaucotf f,f