Sharp County record., 1919-03-14
GROW MORE COTTON
ON SAME ACREAGE
South Must Produce Food Which Ne
esSsitstss Limiting Acreage
Of staple.
By W. Z. Ayers, Arkansas Expert.
nent Station.

The world Is both hungry and poor
ly clOthsd. The South must produce
food for human consumption and
some TO spare This necessitates lin
lttns the cotton acreage az least to
the acreage planted tkis year, How.
ever every effort 20 increase the cot
ton Yields per aors is ths farmers
duty in order 70 meet the worlds |
needs since four short crops have re-
ducsd the visible supply Of cotton
very materially II naked Europe Is |
TO be clothed the world consumption |
Of American cotton with transporra- !
tion restored within the next two or |
three years will be at least two mil !
Ion bales greater than the possible |
supply, unless the Southern farmers
DO their utmost to make every acre |
Weld its maximum. There are three |
means OF increasing the production |
without Increasing the acreage. The !
use OF a better seed; letter culture
methods. and a freer use Of fertillz- !
ers. Good seed must be able to ger
m1nAts II properly plantss-snd Of a
productive and profitable variety.
Produce Better Cotton.
From data presented in Bulletin
No. 1877 on IS experiments with cot
ton varieties, the following conclus-
ions are made:
Good varieties of cotton win pro
duce for the state products worth
S75,00O0O0 more annually than poor
ones and S25,OOOOOO more than aver.
age ones.
Good varieties alone viii increass
the value OF the entire cotton crop
OF tha South S23OOOO,OOO annually.
It pays TO plant well-brsd seed OF
good variety,
Varieties which consistently Weld
well are more desirable than those
which occasionally Weld extremely
we'll, but often produce poorly.
The following nine varieties couId
Drontably replace the 'ninety-nine''
now used in the state: short staple,
medium aarly-gIeveland Rublee,
Triumph. Very early. small boiled.
short staple Trice. Very early, small
boiled. long staple-Express. Me-
dium early, big holled-'benders"-
Rowden and Lone STAR Medium ear.
ly, big boiled. long stapie-Fostsr and
Webber
Use Variety eest suited To Soil.
On thn hill ami hin valley lands
Of northwest Arkansas Trice, Cleve-
and. and carly strains Of Triumph
are the most satisfactory snort varie-
lies Express and early strains Of
Webber are the best long staples
Ths better soils IN the bottoms Of
his section are adapted 70 staple cot.
ION. Express and early strains of
Foster ana Webber viii give good re-
suits Y short varieties are desired.
Trioe ana dwarf straing 9t Cle~a!and
ana Triumph are TO be reconm ended.
On tho better soils OF west.central.
central ana sastcentrnl Arkansas
Express, Foster ana Wsbber are tho
best staple parieties With heavy
boil wsevit intestauon early strains
Of tho latter two must be used. IL
lenders are desired. Rowden anu
Lone star will give The best results
Cleveland and early strains OF Trl
urph are best 9hort varieties for tho
Abovc conditions, FOR tho poorer soils
ot this portion Of .h5 state. rrics.
Rubioe. ana Cleveland are good pro-
duoern. Express or wsbbsr should ~
used on the hlll lands n long staple
cotton is produced.
For the thin soils Of The southern
third Of the stute, rice, Rubles and
Cleveland viii give best results. on
The better soils tho long staple varie.
ties, Express, Foster and Webber
give good results, Triumph. Rowdcn
ana Lone star will also do we'll under
Tho latter conditions
At present prices of cotton goods
The mills can make enormous pronts
On mlddllnE cotton At nfty cents
pound Cotton clothes The poor and
middle classes lt is a product for
which there Ia no substitute nearv 10
cheap, The world must have II and
will have II even at much higher
prices than ara now quoted. As soon
no shipping IL available there will be-
'uoh a demand In Europe for cotton
~ never before existed The Cen.
tral Empires alone have an acoumu.
lated demand for Ave or slx million
bales, Liverpool la shorter OF cotton
han II has been In rs years, There
IA practically no cotton, cloth, of
thread IN onv ~ The scandinavian
countries
The ytsld OF Aaercan cotton tor
the last four years aaa been B0Oo,,
100 bales less than normal eonsumnz
Ion, A NTH short crop viii be little
less than q world disaster, After food
and feed guppies ara provided South.