//. C. Hastings & Co.. Seedsmen. Atlanta, Georgia 
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THE ROSSER No. 1 
Our Extra Earlv Large Boll Cotton 
THAT ALWAYS GETS AHEAD OF THE BOLL WEEVIL 
The Rosser No. 1 Cotton was intro- 
iluced by us 7 years ago aud has 
steadily won favor In boil weevil sec¬ 
tions and all along the e.vtreme 
northern line of the cotton belt 
where very short seasons for cotton 
are the rule. 
There are two points about the 
Rosser No. 1 Cotton that we don't 
Hire. First is, that being a hybrid 
c Jtton, a cross between an extra 
early white seeded variety and an 
extra big boiled green seeded variety 
the seed produced by the Rosser No. 
1 are both green and white, and a 
customer buying seed of it for the 
first time "cusses ns out” for ship- 
]nng 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 working 
with the Rosser fur a great many 
years and all the work in selection 
that we have been able to do has had 
little effect in establishing regularity 
of color in the seed or in shape and 
size of the plant. But Rosser No. 1 
everlastingly makes cotton and 
makes it in a hurry, and we have an 
idea that most people grow cotton 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 customers 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 
weevil could do any damage. 
We grow our seed crops of Rosser 
No. 1 way up in North Georgia, so far 
up in fact that cotton isn't consid¬ 
ered a safe crop there, but the Rosser 
No. 1 has never failed to make a good 
crop there. This helps, too, in keep¬ 
ing up its earliness of maturity. 
The q\iestion of boll weevil’is get¬ 
ting to be serious over most of the 
cotton belt. 
Rosser No. 1 puts you in ahead of 
the boll weevil in the boll weevil sec¬ 
tions, enables you to market 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 1.34 days—seed being planted 
June 8th and plants being 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 becanse it pats 
on tbe itreater part of the crop before 
tbe boll weevil has a chance to get in 
its worst work. 
It is unlike other extra early varie¬ 
ties, in that, while it puts on and- 
opens a heavy crop early, still it con 
tlnues to bear until frost kills plant. 
Bolls are medium to large and donot blow or drop out easily. Adapted 
to allparts of the cotton section, and after seeing it growfor several years 
here in Georgia, in all sorts of seasons and on different soils, we can rec¬ 
ommend it fully to any one who wants an extra early, large boiled, heavy 
bearing cotton. 
For four years onr crops of Rosser No. 1, near Atlanta, were pronounced 
by cotton experts the best fields In this section. One grower In 1904 pro¬ 
duced lint at a net cost of 3 2-5 cents per pound, giving him a net profit of 
over 6 3-5 cents per pound on every pound of lint grown by him that season, 
having sold bis crop at 10 cents. 
The Rosser No. 1—Our Extra Large Boll Cotton 
Our Texas customers re-ordering this variety every two years bring to 
our attention a 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 ginned. When we were handling less 
seed than we do now the ginning 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. 
