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AT LOW RATES OF INTEREST ON
CHOICE FARM LANDS AND IMPROV
ED CITY PROPERTY
H.M. FLETCHER
Jackson, Ga.
J. THREATT MOORE,
Attorney At Law.
Office in Crum Building,
Jackson • Georgia.
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S. B. Kinard, Gen. Agent.
J. Matt McMichael,
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JACKSOJN, GEORGIA.
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Office in New Commercial Building
back of Farmers’ Bank.
Residence Phone No. 7.
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Office in Carter-Warthen Building,
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On North Mulberry st., one two
story 11 room house, 1 acre lot with
servant house and barn. Will sell
at great bargain.
225 acre farm 2Vz miles south of
Jackson. This place is well im
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100 acres VA miles west of Jacksoh.
About 20 acres out at Harkness
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Harkness Building Jackson, Georgia
INCREASE COTTON YIELD
BY BREEDING GOOD SEED
Atlanta, Ga. —The time has come in
Georgia when successful cotton pro
duction demands careful and persist
ent attention to the breeding of the
highest type of seed, says the State
Board of Entomology in a bulletin on
cotton breeding shortly to be issued
for the information and advantages of
farmers of this state.
Good seed, . the department points
out, is not only imperative in planting
to meet boll weevil conditions, but to
produce strains that are resistant to
the many destructive diseases to
which the cotton plant is subject in
different sections of the state.
For the benefit of Georgia’s cotton
growers the department employs a
number of experts in cotton breeding,
whose entire time is given to this
work. Among them are Ira W. Wil
liams and C. A. McLendon, both of
whom have furnished valuable data
for the bulletin soon to be issued.
These experts are at the service of
the farmer upon request, whenever he
may desire their assistance in the mat
ter of producing a higher and stronger
type of seed.
Every farmer should develop his
own cotton seed both to meet boll wee
vil conditions and to resist disease.
The reason for this is, as Mr. Mc-
Lendon points out, that the cotton
plant, is the product of two forces,
environment and heredity. Climatic
and soil conditions and methods of cul
ture vary in different sections; there
fore, the best seed for a particular
locality is produced in that locality it
self. As to heredity, selection be
comes a comparatively easy matter,
because it involves simply the choice
from year to year of the seed from
the plant or plants which grow the
strongest, mature the earliest and man
ifest the greatest degree of resistance
to black root or wilt disease and oth
er diseases attacking the plant.
For Weevil Conditions
Good “pedigreed" seed locally adapt
ed is absolutely essential, Mr. Wil
liams points out, if weevil infestation
is very great. By pedigreed seed is
meant that which extends back for a
number of years and which has been
developed as rapidly as possible from
a single stalk.
“The proper method is to select say
fifty stalks of the variety considered
best and plant these fifty stalks in fif
ty different rows; examine carefully
and study the different rows, and se
lect the most desirable and most, pro
ductive row. Increase this row into a
block and from the block into as large
an area as possible. If this large area
does not plant the entire field, In
crease again the next year. Select ttyo
individual stalks each year from row|
or blocks of previous selection and
peat the method every year. By thja
means the farmer will have pedigreeq
seed coming as close back as possible
from one stalk, and continuing UQjk
process from year to year, the period
of breeding will ultimately extdfld
through a long number of years.
“If a farmer is not willing to go to
the trouble of developing his seed by
this method, he should purchase one
more bushels of seed each year
some man near him who does do thi£,
and from such seed plant his entire
crop.”
Adapted To Locality
The State Board of Entomology has
found by numerous tests that a va
riety of cotton good in one section of
the state, is a failure in another. That
is why it is most important to get
a variety as well bred as possible that
is best, adapted to the locality. The
seed chosen should be from stalks
which are absolutely free from any
signs of wilt or root knot. After a
wilt resistant variety is secured, the
farmer should see to it that his cotton
is free from other diseases, if he is
compelled to lose some cotton from
the boll weevil, he can not, afford to
lose it from any other cause. Among
the most destructive of these diseases
are angular leaf spot, or “black arm,”
as it is r known by sea island planters,
which is a disease, and anthrac
nose, a fungus disease, which is next
to black arm, and, in conjunction with
it, the most destructive agency to the
bolls of cotton. These two diseases
are perpetuated in the seed, which
makes it of the highest importance to
choose the seed from plants unaffect
ed by them.
The type of stalk to be chosen un
der boll weevil conditions is a small
stalk with as little foliage as possible,
but which should be equally productive
as larger stalks. It should have me
dium sized bolls, because the greater
the number of bolls to the stalk, the
larger will be the number of them to
reach maturity free from weevil at
tack. Unless a farmer is breeding for
length of lint and selling upon that,
basis, it is better to devote his energy
to securing the highest, per cent of
lint. This is largely a matter of in
dividual decision.
What is known as “mass selection”
may be practiced under certain condi
tions with good results. This consist?
in going through the field and select
ing the seed from the healthiest and
''aosi productive stalks from a wilt re
sistant variety on heavily infested
land. From year to year the cotton
is thus rendered more resistant and
more productive.
Straight Selection Best
The department recommends straight
selection of seed In breeding rather
than the crossing of varieties or hy
bridizing. It is believed this will pro
duce the best and most satisfactory
results under ordinary conditions.
“The possibilities in breeding cotton
according to the latest approved meth
ods are almost unlimited,” says Mr.
McLendon. "In the light of recent evi
dence in this work, it seems entirely
possible so to conduct the breeding
experiments with this crop as to
change the shape and size of the plant
and its fruit, free or nearly rid it of
destructive diseases, increase or de
crease its earliness and productive
ness, the length, strength and percen
tage of its lint, purify the seed sam
ple, and otherwise alter or improve all
the other inheritable characters of the
plant.
"The problem of cotton improve
ment through breeding operations re
solves itself into a strictly local prop
osition, if the best results are to be ob
tained, as has been demonstrated time
and again in various experiments
conducted with this crop. The place
effect, or the combined effect of local
conditions, so controls the behavior
of the cotton plant that nothing short,
of a thorough knowledge of the local
adaptability of a certain variety or
strain of cotton can serve as an in
dex to its possibilities for improve
ment. That is, each soil type with its
attendant climatic conditions in the
state of Georgia, will carry a certain
variety of cotton better than will any
other type of soil, and so on for the
different soil and climatic areas of the
state.”
It is further pointed out that while
in some sections big boll varieties pro
duce the greatest yield, in others the
small boil varieties give the best re
sults; from which it is apparent how
unreasonable it is for the South Geor
gia farmer to expect the best results
from seed bred in the northern part
of the state, and vice versa.
Department Will Help
While the process of seed breeding
is comparatively a simple one, it in
volves many details which manifestly
cannot be given in the space of a brief
article. The forthcoming bulletin will
present all of these details and will
be furnished free upon application to
any farmer in the state desiring it.
In the meantime, it is important that
cotton planters all over Georgia should
have the general Idea of the seed
selection process right now when the
time is approaching for such selection
to be made. The farmer who has not
ed the best vuriety adapted to his lo
cality can begin his seed selection pro
cess as the bolls ripen and open. For
this purpose, as already stated, he
should choose good, healthy, early
maturing plants which are unaffected
ljy wilt or other diseases.
The department is ready to lend ev
possible assistance to the planter
lh this work. It will furnish the
baffs In which the seed should be
fied as gathered. This hag may be
I directly to the stalk and the cot
picked and put into it. The cot
should be picked as fast as it.
OD&ni* and becomes dry. It will not
damage in the hag in ordinary weath
er. Just as soon as most of the de
sirable bolls are open, the sacks
should be removed to some dry place.
Cotton to be used for seed should not
be left in the bolls any length of time,
as the seed are liable to damage very
rapidly.
When the cotton is all picked these
sacks can be sent to the State Board
of Entomology, State Capitol, Atlanta,
Ga., or 10 the Entomological Experi
ment station at Thomasville, Ga.,
where the seed will he ginned and the
per cent of lint carefully calculated.
The seed will be returned to the farm
er for planting with a table showing
the iter cent of lint, from the different
stalks. The department will also gin
samples at any time from different
progeny rows, and calculate the per
cent of lint in order to help the farm
er determine which of his seed makes
the highest percentage.
Begin The Work Now.
It Is time now to decide upon the
variety and the spot in the field from
which the start for breeding is to be
made; and just about the time the
cotton begins to open the real work
of selection should begin. Selecting
a few superior early plants is the first
step, and this should be done before
any cotton is picked from the patch
where you are to make the selection.
The seed should be separated from
the lint, preferably by a hand gin,
and under no circumstances should
there be any other seed remaining in
it. The department has hand gins
for this use and for the benefit of any
farmer desiring its assistance In
breeding his seed.
Speaking for the Board, State Ento
mologist E. Lee Worsham invites and
urges ail Georgia cotton planters to
send to the department the seed they
have selected for ginning and calcula
tion of the per cent of lint. In this
way a beginning can be made now,
and from year to year the farmer's
supply of seed to meet boll weevil
conditions and resist disease, will be
larger and larger until he ultimately
has enough to plant his entire crop.