52 Growing Sea Island Cotton Under Florida Conditions 



Don't dust young cotton plants. Buy both poison and 

 molasses and use the poisoned-syrup mixture. 



Don't leave poison, mops and buckets where children or 

 livestock can get to them. 



Don't fail to start harvesting when the plants show three 

 to five open bolls per plant as open Sea Island cotton deter- 

 iorates rapidly under field conditions. 



Don't fail to dry harvested cotton in the sun for at least 

 four weeks before ginning. Drying and hand-picking trash 

 before ginning will insure better prices. 



Don't sell cotton in the seed. Have it ginned as it will 

 pay you handsomely. 



Don't plant Sea Island cotton in the southern edge of the 

 Florida Belt without making provisions to poison the cotton 

 stainer. 



Don't plant Sea Island cotton south of a line extending 

 from the Melbourne area on the east to Hillsborough County 

 on the west due to the possibility of infestation by the Pink 

 boll worm which infests the wild cottons on the Florida keys. 



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