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TOOZii: COTTON.— (Short Staple.)— Low 



bush; shapely height; plant close; 87 bolls 

 to 1 pound 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 until 

 late. Fine results on poor land. No other 

 cotton so prolific in field or at gin. $1.75 

 per bushel of 30 pounds. 



KING'S EABIiY IMPROVED COTTON.— 



This short staple Cotton has wonderfully 

 increased in popularity. It is extra early, 

 wonderfuly prolific, long limbed, seed 

 small, lint 36 to 40 per cent. $1.75 per 

 bushel of 30 pounds. 



ai.i.i:n'S improved cotton.— (iiong- 



Staple.) — Pains full IVs to 1%. Consid- 

 ered by the mills as the most desirable 

 cotton raised in the United States, Sea 

 Island excepted. Plants tall, branching 

 pyramidal. Seeds, fuzzy, white. small, 

 80 to 90 to pound. Fairly late. $2.00 per 

 bushel of 30 pounds. 



BANE ACCOUNT COTTON. — (Short 



Staple.) — Early; for boll weevil lands. It 

 is one of the newly named cottons, and of 

 the same type as Money Maker, which in 

 turn is sometimes called "Little Green 

 Seed." It is about one week later than 

 King's or Simpkins. Seed are quite small, 

 many of them being green. Its form is 

 like King's and Toole; shy in foliage; can 

 be planted closely; 40 to 43- per cent, at the 

 gin; it fruits from the ground up to the 

 top. We know one party this season who 

 made 150 bales on 169 acres. While some 

 very extravagant claims have been made 

 in certain quarters for this newly named 

 cotton, it is in all truth one of our best 

 types to-day. The special object in it, 

 aside from its earliness and prolificness, 

 was to breed into it the larger portion of 

 green seed and to lessen the white, fuzzy, 

 and the smooth black seed. Price, 1 

 bushel, $1.75; 5 to 10 bushels, at $1.60 per 

 bushel, 30 pounds to bushel. 



MOBTGA6E LIPTEB.- (Short Staple.) 



Big boll type. Thirteen per cent, open by 

 September 1st. A Georgia cotton. Much 

 advertised in North Carolina. A highly 

 prolific cotton close kin to Jones' Improved 

 Big Boll. Practically same, too, as Wyche 

 Five Locked. Plant strong, 46 bolls to 

 pound. Seeds large, fuzzy, brovrnish-grav. 

 Lint about 15.16. No better big boll 

 cotton grown. Price, 1 bushel, $1.75; 5 to 

 10 bushels, at $1.60 per bushel, 30 pounds 

 to bushel. 



Special prices on large quantities of any 

 of the above Cotton Seed. 



Have also the White Virginia and Red 

 Tennessee Peanuts in stock. They are 

 larger in size than the Spanish kinds. 

 They are of a spreading habit, and are 

 cultivated in ridges like sweet potatoes. 

 Price of White Virginia is 10c. per pound. 

 Price of Red Tennessee is 15c. per pound. 

 If by mail, 9c. extra. 



SPANISH PEANUTS. — As a money 

 making crop, as a crop that replenishes 

 the soil, and as a crop that may follow 

 others on the same land with safety, the 

 Peanut has proved its worth to the South 

 and particularly to the lands of Missis- 

 sippi and Louisiana, where the boll weevil 

 has made the production of cotton more 

 or less of a venture. 



Peanuts are a benefit in many ways to the 

 farmer. They not only produce enough 

 tubers to pay a handsome profit to the 

 £rrower, but they enrich the soil. And not 

 only that, but they provide enough hay 

 from the vine to pay for the cost of grow- 

 ing them, including seed and cultivation, 

 so that the nut crop itself is clear profit. 



Spanish Peanuts can be cultivated en- 

 tirely with a plow, and are easily gath- 

 ered, as all the peas hang close to the 

 roots. The fruit is smaller than the Vir- 

 ginia or Tennessee, but the plants yield 

 lieavier. Price, per pound, 15c.; by mail 

 prepaid, 25c.; per peck, 60c.; per bushel, 

 .?2.00. measured bushel. 



PEANUTS. 



Steepler's White Mammoth Peanuts. 



PEANUTS OE GOOBEBS. — Goobers seem 

 to do best on a fairly dry, light, sandy 

 soil. They are pre-eminently the "hog 

 feed" for sand hill and high pine land, 

 though they will do well on most any land. 

 Plant in rows ZV2 or 4 feet apart, and 

 about 10 inches apart in the rows, at any 

 time from March 1 to June 1, when the 

 ground is moist enough for planting corn. 

 Cultivate the same as Spanish Peanuts, 

 which they resemble in growth. Let the 

 hogs into them when the leaves turn quite 

 yellow. On new ground, drop the goober 

 or peanut in every other furrow as you 

 break the land, and they will make a good 

 crop without cultivation. 



STECKLEB'S WHITE MAMMOTH PEA- 

 NUTS. — This is the largest peanut ever 

 introduced. The pods measure on an aver- 

 age 2V4 inches in length and l\i inches in 

 diameter. Thick shelled and deeply ridged. 

 The kernels are of light color, 1 Vs inches 

 long and Vz inch in diameter, which would 

 easily be mistaken for pecans. Al- 

 though of wonderful size, its bearing quali- 

 ties are still more wonderful. It is known 

 to yield on an average of 1 gallon of pea- 

 nuts to one kernel planted, making it the 

 most prolific and largest peanut known. 

 7.")C. per pound, postpaid: 1 peck, measured, 

 $1.75; % bushel, measured. $3.00; 1 bushel, 

 measured, $5.00. 



Diversify Your Crops, Plant Corn and Forage Grasses. 



