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POTOLAS OOtJWTY mOUOLABVIUJC QKOEQIA. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26. 1919.
BRING US YOUR
COTTON
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and everything is in first class shape. •
We are better Prepared
than ever to give you
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Will buy your seed and sell you meal and
hulls.
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the past, give us a trial and let us show you the
advantages we have to offer.
We are ready for business now.
CONNALLY & KIRKLEY GIN CO
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1. W. JAMES & COMPANY
State Board of Entomology Tells How This Can
Be Done—Announces Discontinuance of
Free Seed.
Atlanta, September 3—(Special.)—
At a recent meeting ot the Board of
Entomology it was decided to discon
tinue the’free distribution of cotton
seed. This action was taken after due
deliberation, because of the fact that
for the past ten years the Board has
distributed thousands of bushels of
free cottou seed.
During the past two years 10 to 20
bushels of free cotton seed have
been sent to each of 125 counties.
From this it will he seen that the wilt
resistant cotton seed is now well dis
tributed over the state/ and good seed
of the wilt resistant cotton and other
varieties may he purchased from these
co-operative cotton growers or others
who are giving special attention to the
improvement of their cotton by seed
selection.
There is one or more co-operative
growers ip each of these counties. The
Department is helpiug these men to
improve their cotton by selection,
teaching them how to combat insects
and diseases that may attack their cot
ton, giving them instructioh on how
to keep the cotton from becoming mire
ed at the gin, and impressing upon
them the value and importance of pure
cotton seed. The Board of Entomol
ogy believed that by devoting more
time and money to this important
work, they can render the cotton
growers of Georgia more service and
do them more good than by continu
ing to send out free cotton seed.
All of the co-operative cottou grow
ers, and others who are growing a
good cotton for -their section, that
came from good, improved cotton
seed, should now plan to save all the
seed they can to sell, as there will
probably he a good demand for it this
winter.
Value and Importance
Of Improved Cotton Seed
The value of pure, improved pedi
greed cotton seed is being realized
more and more each year by the cot
ton growers. With the boll weevil to
contend with and thepresenee of cot
ton wilt and other diseases, it is be
coming a more difficult task to raise
cotton profitably, than it was when
these insects and disease-s 'were not
so prevalent. All of the work and ex
periments conducted on growing cot
ton under boll weevil conditions, have
shown that half the fight on the boll
weevil consists in sowing a variety
adapted to that section where the
cotton is is to he grown; and that pure,
improved, pedigreed seed of this va
riety should be planted.
Under boll weevil conditions it is
important to have every cotton stulk
produce us much seed cotton as pos
sible. This cannot be accomplished
when “gin run” seed is planted.- If
you will carefuly go through cotton
fields planted- from “gin run" seed,
and note the productive' and unpro
ductive stalks, you will soon discover
that there are many unproductive
stalks.
If a field contains only 5 to 10%
of these unproductive stalks they may
reduce the 'yield so as to cause the
grower to lose, instead of make,
money, from his cotton. If. in addition
to 5 to 10% of the cotton stalks be
ing unproductive, there is also a loss
of from 5 to 10% from wilt and other
diseases, the loss will be still greater.
LIKE REAL . ORIENTAL RUflS
All of this loss or a great portion of
it, may be prevented by planting pure,
improved, pedigreed seed of a suitable |
variety. i
If you are not growing a cotton
adapted to your section, we would sug
gest that your purchase from some one
in your section of the state, some good, j
improved, pedigreed seed of a variety I
adapted to your soil. The Depart •
ment urges all who are growing a
good variety to uiuke a mass selection
from which to secure seed for plant- 1
ing an increased plot next year. Thi3 .
method of improving cotton by mass
selection should be practiced by all I
cotton growers in order to increase!
their yield of cotton and maintain its :
purity.
If yOu are growing two- or three va- |
rities of cotton on your place, go over j
the- different varieties and decide
which oue you wish to plant next
year. Having determined oh the va
riety to select seed from, go over the
field very carefully and note the dif
ferent types of codon stalks found in
it. You will find a few stalks very J
well fruited, inany poorly fruited, and
some with scarcely any fruit at all.
Note the type of stalk that produces
the most fruit. You will probably find !
that this type of stalk produce* the
most cotton in all parts of the field,
whether the stalk is large or small. |
Having determined the type of stalk,
now proceed to select the best indi
vidual stalks of this type.
Consider These Points
In Selecting Vour Seed
lu determining the individual stalks
to select you should carefully consider |
the following points:, Type of stalk.-
fruitfulness, earliness and disease re- j
sistai.v e. Select and tag enough of j
these good individual stalks to secure i
a hundred pounds or more of seed j
cotton. Pick oiit the cotton from [
these individual Stalks, ahead of the
cotton pickers, or instruct tliein not!
to pick the tagged stalks. Take this j
cotton to the gin and feed it to the j
gin by hand and let the seed run
out on a sheet spread on the floor. |
In this way you can gin a small j
amount of seed cotton and keep the |
seed from becoming mixed with the
seed iu the seed auger.
If you do not select enough good
stalks..to make more than twenty-five
pounds’of seed cotton, send this by
prepaid express to the Georgia State
Board of Entomology. Atlanta. Ga..
and they will gin it for you aiul de
termine the percentage of lint it turns
out. aud return the seed by express
collect. There will be no charge, for
the ginning, hut the lint will be kept
to partially pay for tbe expenses of
the operatiou.
The cotton seed thus secured
should be planted next year in a
patch tdi'-itself as. much as, possible,
and if the seed fiom this paLch w
carefully saved, it will plant 1 a large
field the following year. The Depart
ment has issued a circular on the
value and importance of maintaining
the purity of cotton seed.
For a copy of this circular, for bul
letin on variety tests of 1918, or for
advice in regard to the variety adapted
to your section and list of parties from
whom good improved cotton seed may
be purchased, address A. jC. Lewis
State Eutouiolo«i*t. Atlanta, ;.€!a.
British Factory. Said to Bo TuffllNf
Out Perfect Imitation* of Ranh
Eaetem Products.
Considerable interest has bWB*
aroused in London over the showing
of a new type of imitation oriental
carpet by Harrod’s* Ltd., according
to H. G. Brock, United States trad®
commissioner at the English capital.
“The carpets,” he writes iu a con
sular report, “are claimed to be ex*
act reproductions of rare Eastern
carpets and are being offered at
prices not much higher than thoflB
of ordinary loom productions. ThO
most remarkable feature about theufc
is considered to be the true render
ing of that Eastein luster which had
hitherto defied successful copying*
Some of the most* notable reproduo*
tions are those of the seventeenth*
century coronation carpets which 1
were made for the shah of Persiay
the Khorasaau rug, aud the famoud
carpet mauufactured for the Sheik
Ismail, the original of which hang!
in the Victoria and Albert museuitt
of London; and there are copies ot
others from the cathedrals and arl
galleries of the world. The eatpefaf
vary in size and have all been maefe
in a British factory during the Last
three or four years.”
W. D. Ager, American agent foff
Harrod’s, explained that his firm had
secured the exclusive agency fot
these rugs in England and has tradd
marked them under the name “Orf-
angle.” He said that Queen Mar?
recently visited the store and placed
a substantial order for these ruga tot
her own use.
GREATEST MEDICAL CENTER. |
One hund-red and fifty of the moat
prominent physicians and surgeon!
of the city bave combined to makd
New York the greatest medical oeB-
ter in the world. This fact was re*
vealed when it was announced that-
already a campaign is being waged
by the recently organized New York
Association for the Advancement of
Medical Education and Medical
Science for a fund of $50,000,000 td
carry on the work. It was the deo-
luration of those at the head of thB
movement that there is every indict*
tion that the effort to put New Ytfk
in the place of Berlin and Vienna «A
world medical centers will
crowned with success. •• .
DISTINGUISHED WORKER. j
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distinction for doing war Iforfcl*
asked the man who read the papm.
“Oh, yes,” replied his neigh tar.
“He didn’t get a medal, a ribfoa ttt
oven, an; resolutions.”—YmIM
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