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STEtKI.ER SEED CO., ETD. , ALMANAC AND 



Strawberry boxes with bottoms for ship- 

 ping berries, quarts $4.50 per 1000, $1.00 per 

 100, pints, $3.75 per 1000, 75c. per 100. 



Tacks for Dirt Bands and boxes, U pound, 

 15c. ; pound, 50c. 



Crates for Strawberry Boxes, containing 24 

 quarts, price 25c. each. 



DIRECTIONS FOR I'LANTING AND CUL- 

 T I VAT I N G C OT TO N . 



For the benefit of every one directly inter- 

 ested in the growing of th's most valuable 

 staple of commerce, we submit the following 

 directions in brief and concise form : 



Thoroughly break and prepare your land 

 early, having the rows 31/2 to 4 feet wide, and 

 hills 12 to 14 inches apart in drill. When 

 the cotton comes up plow it deep while it :« 

 small in order to let the heat of the su)i 

 strike through the beds. As it gets larger 

 shallow down, and towards the last plough 

 Tery shallow with wide sweeps. Always 

 keep the top crust of the ground broken in 

 irj weather, as it prevents it from losing its 

 forms, but plough very shallow. Never stop 

 ploughing for wet weather until the ground 

 turns in slices, then quit immediatelj* until it 

 dries off. Never lay-by until the middle of 

 August. The most successful time we have 

 ever had in planting for a big yield was on 

 the 5th and 6th days of April ; in fact, the 

 first week in April is the best time for plant- 

 ing cotton for good results. One bushel of 

 cotton seed required to plant an acre of land. 



Petit Gulf $0 75 per bush, of 30 lbs. 



Peterkin 1 25 per bush, .of SO lbs. 



Allen, Long Staple. 2 00 per bush, of 30 lbs. 

 Boyd's Prolific ... 1 50 per bush, of 30 lbs. 



Peerless 2 00 per bush, of 30 lbs. 



Sea Island 2 50 per bush, of 40 lbs. 



Hagermen 1 50 per bush, of 40 lbs. 



Russell's Big Boll.. 2 00 per bush, of 30 lbs. 

 King's Early Imp. 2 00 per bush, of 30 lbs. 

 Hawkins' Ex. Pro.. 2 00 per bush, of 30 lbs. 

 Little Brannon ... 2 00 per bush, of 30 lbs. 



Herlong 1 50 per bush, of 30 lbs. 



Special pr'ces given on large quantities. 

 PETERKIN IMPROVED COTTON. — We 

 recommend the Peterkin Cotton as one that 

 will not disappoint the grower. It is a vigor- 

 ous grower, a good producer, withstands dry 

 weather better than the common seed. Pro- 

 lific, open growing or branching, excellent 

 large bolls, small seed and yields fully forty 

 per cent of net lint cotton. 



RUSSELL'S BIG BOLL PROLIFIC COT- 

 TON. — This Cotton was among the first in 

 point of yield out of twenty-five varieties test- 

 ed in 1900, making 2,091 pounds seed cotton 

 to the acre. The stalks grow from 4% to 7 

 feet high, producing large, long limbs at t^e 



bottom and shorter ones up The stalk. From 



36 to 40 bolls weigh one pound, and 40 to 100 

 bolls grow on each stalk. 



KINGS EARLY IMPROVED COTTON. — 

 Tills short staple Cotton, which was originated 

 by Mr. T. J. King, of North Carolina, has 

 wonderfully increased in popularity. Mr, 

 King claims for it that it is "extra early," 

 wonderfully prolific, long limbed, seed small, 

 lint 36 to 40 per cent. Mr. King's locality 

 being in the extreme northern portion of the 

 Cotton belt, is an advantage in maintaining 

 his claim for earliness — natiirally seeds from 

 latitudes north of us come earlier wke» 

 planted here. 



HAWKINS' EXTRA PROLIFIC COTTON. — 

 Earliest, most prolific, easiest picked, most 

 superior lint and finest staple, tall grower, 

 long tap root, resisting drought, from tw© to 

 four limbs near the surface branching, two 

 short limbs together all the way up to the 

 top, all literally covered with bolls, large boll, 

 small seed, lightly grey or dark green, yiei?^ 

 ing from 39 to 41 per cent. 



LITTLE BRANNON COTTON.— It grows 

 very prolificly, easily picked and on ordinary 

 land yields about one bale per acre, producing 



37 pounds net of lint cotton to every 100 

 pounds. 



JERUSALEM ARTICHOKE.— This tnber Is 

 well known and requires no further descrip- 

 tion. It is used for the table, also for stoek 

 feed. It does better in a rich loam, and 

 should be planted and cultivated like pota- 

 toes. They yield very heavily. Price per 

 bushel, $2.50; per gallon, 35c.; $5.00 per 

 barrel. 



CIIUFAS. — This nut is splendid for fatten- 

 ing hogs ; it has a fine flavor. The nut sends 

 up a single spire so much like Coco it might 



All Vegetable Plants constantly on hand in season. 



