. Elements of agriculture, southern and western. Agriculture; Agriculture. 14: ELEMENTS OF ACiRTCL'ETURE cotton which will make a good crop before the weevils get numerous enough in summer to do serious damage. He found that certain types of big boll cotton are easy to pick, and make bolls just as early as small boll cotton. Although the big bolls do not dry and open so quickly as the small bolls, yet they become large enough to be secure from the attack of the weevils just as early in the season as the small bolls do. These types have an ad- ditional advantage in that when the cotton opens, i
. Elements of agriculture, southern and western. Agriculture; Agriculture. 14: ELEMENTS OF ACiRTCL'ETURE cotton which will make a good crop before the weevils get numerous enough in summer to do serious damage. He found that certain types of big boll cotton are easy to pick, and make bolls just as early as small boll cotton. Although the big bolls do not dry and open so quickly as the small bolls, yet they become large enough to be secure from the attack of the weevils just as early in the season as the small bolls do. These types have an ad- ditional advantage in that when the cotton opens, it is not so badly blown out by storms. By selecting certain types of stalks from fields of good kinds of cotton grown in each neighbor- hood, and growing the seed from the single stalks separately, the farmer can get kinds of cotton far superior to that produced from most seed that are offered for sale at high prices. Usually the seed from a single stalk will yield very true to the parent plant. Efforts to improve the seed gradually by high fertilizing every year have not proved satisfactory. If the right type is selected and this type breeds true, the improvement is. Fig. 50. — Round Cotton Bales. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Welborn, W. C; Ness, H; Sanborn, Charles Emerson, 1877-; Marstellar, R. P. New York, The Macmillan company
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