HOW OUR COTTON 
It has always been the policy of this company 
to sell no seed except those produced on its own 
farms or under the personal direction of its Pro¬ 
duction Department. We buy no seed for resale. 
Only by adhering to this policy can we maintain and 
improve the high standard of quality we have set 
for our product. 
GROWING 
Our seed growing fields are carefully selected at 
strategic points within a hundred-mile radius of 
Hartsville and a portion of our sales acreage of 
each variety is planted at the different locations. 
Thus, our fields are near enough to permit weekly 
observations from planting time until harvest, yet 
are sufficiently scattered to minimize weather risks 
and eliminate the possibility of a total crop failure 
of any one strain or variety of seed. 
As a safeguard against mixing, only one kind of 
cotton is planted on one farm—except in the case 
of our own Hartsville farms where some of all our 
main cottons are planted for the convenience of our 
many visitors who come here during the summer to 
observe our different cottons under field conditions. 
Weekly visits to our seed fields afford an oppor¬ 
tunity to check for variant or off-type plants and if 
any show up they are immediately pulled up and 
destroyed. When the crop is sufficiently advanced 
in maturity to show definite varietal characteristics, 
each field is carefully “rogued” or inspected, section 
by section, as a further safeguard to purity. 
GINNING 
Our cotton is harvested as promptly as possible 
and every precaution is used to preserve the purity 
and vitality of the seed. A special gin day is set 
aside for each kind of cotton. All ginning is done on 
private gins, equipped with up-to-date machinery 
and so arranged as to permit a thorough cleaning 
after each variety is ginned. 
The seed from each individual bale of cotton is 
bagged separately at the gin and given a registra¬ 
tion or “lot” number. A tag bearing this number, 
also the variety name and strain number, is placed 
both inside and outside the bag. A permanent record 
is kept of all lot numbers and we can trace the 
history of any bag of seed we sell from the fields 
in which it grew to the customer who plants it. We 
also preserve a file sample of seed from each lot 
of seed that we ship out for the purpose of making 
retests if necessary. 
Seed are blended into uniform running lots, thoroughly recleaned, treated with Ceresan and bagged in even weight bags 100 lbs. each. 
