. Catalogue No. 91. Vegetables Seeds Catalog. Fruit Seeds Catalog. 26 ALEXANDER SEED COMPANY, AUGUSTA, GA. **T<"7 V l\/f T TXT V9 The Greatest Prize-Winning Extra-Early Big- Mli£j 1 -ITl Ull I Boll Cotton—"The Boll-Weevil Dodger". The Sure Crop — Big Boll, Extra Early, Very Prolific, Storm- Proof, Five-Lock "Ezy-Muny" Cotton. TOXTB IDEAL Cotton is this new selection of ours. If you had the time to go into all of the best cotton fields of the South and pick with your own hands the best you could find, this is with- out a doubt the very one that you would select. It w
. Catalogue No. 91. Vegetables Seeds Catalog. Fruit Seeds Catalog. 26 ALEXANDER SEED COMPANY, AUGUSTA, GA. **T<"7 V l\/f T TXT V9 The Greatest Prize-Winning Extra-Early Big- Mli£j 1 -ITl Ull I Boll Cotton—"The Boll-Weevil Dodger". The Sure Crop — Big Boll, Extra Early, Very Prolific, Storm- Proof, Five-Lock "Ezy-Muny" Cotton. TOXTB IDEAL Cotton is this new selection of ours. If you had the time to go into all of the best cotton fields of the South and pick with your own hands the best you could find, this is with- out a doubt the very one that you would select. It was originated or propagated by an up-to-date farmer up in the Northern cotton belt where the seasons are short. The selection and breeding have been done from a very healthy and thrifty growing big boll variety, and has been so well developed that it will produce a more su- perior crop in every respect than any of the big boll type. This variety has been grown from the begin- ning on land free from disease. It was no easy task to develop this variety, but careful and patient work always brings the desired results when proper methods are used, and the reward obtained in the perfection of this new strain proves that it was worth all of the time and money spent in bringing it up to its present condition. In it you will find MORE OF THE MOST DESIRABLE qualities for an absolutely perfect variety of this class than you have ever seen. We have tested it in every possible way with other big boll varities, both of the early and late types, and there is not one that has proven equal to it in a three years' test on dark, red-clay (and of good quality, on stiff, gray pebble land with clay subsoil, on rich river bottom and sandy land. The results in all trials have been highly satisfac- tory. A friend of ours told us about this selection in 1908. We at once investigated it and found it to be just what we wanted. It cost us $ a bushel. Big boll cottons are nearly always the most pop
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