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H. G. Hastings & Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia. 
T hIE ROSSER NO. 1 
Our Extra Early Medium Size Boll Cotton 
THAT ALWAYS GETS AHEAD OF THE BOLL WEEVIL 
The Rosser No. 1 Cotton was 
introduced by us 9 years ago and 
has steadily won favor in boll 
weevil sections and all along the 
extreme northern line of the cot- 
ton belt where very short sea- 
sons for cotton are the rule. 
There are two points about the 
Rosser No. 1 Cotton that we 
don’t like. First is, that being a 
hybrid cotton, a cross between an 
extra early white seeded variety 
and an extra big boiled green 
seeded variety the seed produced 
by the Rosser No.l are both green 
and white, and a customer buy- 
ing seed of it for the first time 
“cusses us out” for shipping him 
“mixed seed.” Second, the shape 
and size of the plants in the field 
are more irregular than we like 
to see them. We have been work- 
ing with the Rosser for a great 
many years and all the work in 
selection that we have been able 
to do has had little effect in es- 
tablishing regularity of color in 
the seed or in shape and size of 
the plant. But Rosser No. 1 ever- 
lastingly makes cotton and makes 
it in a hur^y. and we have an 
idea that most people grow cot- 
ton to get a good crop of lint 
rather than any particular color 
of seed or size or shape of the 
plant. Judging by the way so 
many order Rosser No. 1 from us 
year after year it pleases them. 
Rosser No. 1 begins opening as 
early or earlier than the best 
strains of the King Extra Early. 
In fact one of our Texas custom- 
ers wrote us that the Rosser No. 
1 opened fully one week ahead of 
the King and enabled him to 
make a crop before the boll wee- 
vil could do any damage. 
We grow our seed crops of Ros- 
ser No. 1 way up in North Geor- 
gia, so far up in fact that cotton 
isn’t considered a safe crop there, 
but the Rosser No. 1 has never 
failed to make a good crop there. 
This helps, too, in keeping up its 
earliness of maturity. 
The question of boll weevil is 
getting to be serious over most of 
the cotton belt. 
Rosser No. 1 puts you in ahead 
of the boll weevil in the boll wee- 
vil sections, enables you to mar- 
ket early if you desire to, and 
gives you a larger boiled, easily 
picked variety. It has none of 
the bad qualities of King’s or a 
late variety that is slow to open. 
It’s an all right early cotton that 
will give you heavy yields where 
the crop has to be made in a 
short time. 
Rosser No. 1 holds the record 
of making slightly over one bale 
per acre in 134 days — seed being 
planted .Tune 8th and plants be- 
ing killed by frost October 20th. 
This was on rather poor Georgia 
red clay, upland, in a dry season. 
Rosser No. 1 enables growers in 
the _worst boll weevil sections to 
again make profitable crops be- 
puse it puts on the greater part of the crop before the boll weevil 
has a chance to get in its worst work. 
Bolls are rnedium to large and do not blow or drop out easily. 
Adapted to all parts of the cotton section, and .after seeing it grow 
for several years here in Georgia, in all sorts of seasons and on dif- 
ferent soils, we can recommend it fully to any one who wants an 
extra early, medium sized boll, heavy bearing cotton. 
For four years crops of Rosser No. 1, near Atlanta, were pro- 
nounced by cotton experts the best fields in this section. One grow- 
er in 1904 produced lint at a net cost of 3 2-5 cents per pound, giv- 
ing him a net profit of 6 3-6 cents per pound on every pound of lint 
grown by him that season, having sold his crop at ten cents. 
Our Texas customers re-ordering this variety every two years 
bring to our attention the fact that too little attention is paid to it. 
Almost every one of them writes that their seed gets so mixed in the 
public gins that they don’t want to plant it again. In other words, 
two years’ ginning under the present system puts seed down almost 
on the basis of common seed. It’s practically impossible to keep 
seed anywhere near straight where more than one variety is gin- 
ned. When we were handling less seed than we do now the jgin- 
ning used to give us a great deal of trouble — now we have entire 
plantations with private gins on the place, growing and ginning 
one variety only. In this way only can we keep seed right 
