GARDEN MANUAL 
Directions for Planting and Cultivating 
Cotton. 
Thoroughly break and prepare your 
land early, having the rows 3% to 4 feet 
wide, and hill 12 to 14 inches apart in 
drill. When the cotton comes up plow 
it deep while it is small in order to let 
the heat of the sun strike through the 
beds. As it gets larger shallow down, 
and towards the last plow very shallow 
with wide sweeps. Always keep the top 
crust of the ground broken in dry weath- 
er, 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 immedi- 
ately until it dries off. Never lay-by un- 
til the middle of August. The most suc- 
cessful time we have ever had in plant- 
ing 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 planting 
cotton for good results. One bushel of 
cotton seed required to plant an acre of 
land. 
All of our Cotton Seed is grown in 
Georgia and is free from Boll Weevil. 
These are all good varieties which have 
been thoroughly tested. 
Allen’s Long Staple.—$1.75 per bushel 
of 30 lbs. 
Sea !sland.—$3.50 per bushel of 40. lbs. 
Simpkins.—$1.35 per bushel of 30 lbs. 
Toole—$1.35 per bushel of 30 lbs. 
Russell’s Big Boll.—$1.35 per bushel of 
30 lbs. 
King’s Early 
bushel of 30 lbs. 
Hawkin’s Extra Early Prolific.«—$1.50 
per bushel of 30 lbs. 
World’s Wonder.—$2.00 per bushel of 
30 lbs. 
Mebane’s Early Triumph.—$1.50 per 
bushel of 30 lbs. . 
Cook’s improved Big Boll.—$1.50 per 
bushel of 30 lbs. 
Cleveland’s.—$1.50 per bushel of 30 lbs. 
Sea Island Cotton.—Extra long staple; 
line 1% or 1% to 2 inches. Seed biack 
and lintless. 
row—») feet rows, 3 feet drill. 
Improved.—$1.35 per 
The fa- 
FOR’THE SOUTHERN STATES. 
| Lands. 
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| Product of this cotton is usually twenty 
| 350-lb. bales on 25 acres. 
| yield about 30 pounds lint for 100 pounds 
| of seed. 
_ three times the price of short staple. 
Tall bush; 
This lint usually brings about 
Highest priced cotton lint in the world. 
Cook’s Improved Big Boll.—For Boll 
Weevil Lands.—(Short Staple.)—Extra 
big boll.—Height, 3.48 inches. Bolls large, 
round, blunt-pointed, 5 locks, open well; 
/ seed medium size, gray or white tipped, 
' lint upland quality. 
% to 1% inches lint. 
Season maturing early—about ten days 
later than King’s. 
Cleveland Big Boll.—For Boll Weevil 
An Experimental Station says: 
| “This variety has been grown in our tests 
- pound of seed cotton. 
| lint at the gin. 
for three years. It stood second in 1906, 
first in 1907 and first, by a small margin, 
in 1908. It has large bolls and good fiber 
which measures from 1 inch to 1 1-16 
inches.” . 
Mebane’s Early Triumph Big Boll Cot- 
ton.—(Short Staple.}—For Boll Weevil 
Lands. Originated in Texas. Big boll; in 
fact, an immense boll, 46 bolls making 1 
Earlier than most 
About 39 per cent of 
Seed fuzzy, medium in 
size, brownish and greenish-white, with 
some green seeds, showing its hybrid 
character. Storm resistant. This vari- 
ety has been especially satisfactory in 
big boll cottons. 
| regions infested with the boll weevil. 
Simpkins’ Early’ Prolific Cotton. — 
(Short Staple.)—Resembles the King’s, 
but is earlier by ten days, and bolls are 
larger and it gives much larger yields 
both in field and at the gin. The superi- 
ority of this cotton over all others con- 
sists of its extreme earliness and heavy 
fruiting; has long limbs, which come out 
at the ground; has close joints and small 
seed, and yields 40 per cent. lint at the 
| gin. 
Plant % bushel to acre in , 
mous Sea Island cottons off the South | 
_at the bottom and shorter ones up the 
over the world. We get our seed there. | Stalk. From 36 to 40 bolls weigh one 
Carolina-Georgia coasts are known all 
Toole Cotton.— (Short Staple) — Low 
bush; shapély height; plant close; 87 
bolls to 1 lb. seed cotton. Can be planted 
15 to 18 inches in row and 2 stalks to hill. 
Three large limbs near roots parallel with 
the ground. Magnificently productive. 
Comes early and holds on fruiting till 
late. Fine results on poor land. No 
other cotton so prolific in field or at gin. 
Russell’s Big Boll Prolific Cotton.— 
This Cotton was among the first in 
point of yield out of twenty-five varieties 
tested, making 2,091 pounds seed cotton 
to the acre. The stalks grow from 4% 
to 7 feet high, producing large long limbs 
Plant Steckler’s Hog Pasture Mixture and Steckler’s Mixed Lawn Grass. 
