. Cotton, its cultivation, marketing, manufacture, and the problems of the cotton world. kes a record onany race track; even in beef for our tables, a scrubmakes a tough, insipid product; and in the dairy,profit comes only with carefully chosen milk cattle. Blood tells in men, in animals, in plants. Ittells in cotton—^in yield of seed and lint; in length,in strength, in all other desirable features of thefiber. Not to select seed with care and according tosome definite plan, therefore, is wasteful, costly,unprofitable. A PROBLEM FOR THE INDIVIDUAL FARMER The day when any cotton planter can aff
. Cotton, its cultivation, marketing, manufacture, and the problems of the cotton world. kes a record onany race track; even in beef for our tables, a scrubmakes a tough, insipid product; and in the dairy,profit comes only with carefully chosen milk cattle. Blood tells in men, in animals, in plants. Ittells in cotton—^in yield of seed and lint; in length,in strength, in all other desirable features of thefiber. Not to select seed with care and according tosome definite plan, therefore, is wasteful, costly,unprofitable. A PROBLEM FOR THE INDIVIDUAL FARMER The day when any cotton planter can afford toplant just any variety of any sort of seed has trulypassed. Good farm management in cotton grow-ing, as in any kind of plant or animal production,calls for the use of good seed only, seed possessingqualities desired by commerce, and the abilityto display these qualities under the individualgrowers special soil, climate, and conditions. But to get best results, you will have to investi- fate for yourself. The Agricultural College andIxperiment Station can determine fundamental. VARIETIES OF COTTON. (A, B) American Upland, Southern types; (C) Sea Island (Long Staple) Cot-ton; (D) Asiatic Cotton.
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