TWO POPULAH COTTONS FOR THE SOUTHWEST 
The Two Best Varieties—State Registered Cotton Seed 
HARPER COTTON 
State Registered Seed 
FAMILY U STRAIN FROM ORIGINATOR 
Plant Harper Seed in your fields and the cotton you produce will be wanted by the world 
market. We have secured a fine lot of seed from Robert M. Harper’s Cotton Breeding Farms. 
The purity is guaranteed to be 99%% by the breeder. 
We believe the latest improved Harper Seed possesses more good features than any other 
variety. We recommend Harper’s State Registered Seed to our trade as being the purest seed 
on the market. The most outstanding feature of Harper’s 1938 crop is the improved staple. On 
the average uplands it produces a staple of from 15/16 to 1-1/32 inch of the very highest quality 
It produces large bolls with a gin turnout of from 38 to 40 per cent. 
The fields in which these seed were produced have been inspected and approved by the 
State Seed and Plant Board and are classified as State Registered Seed (Blue Tag), this being 
the highest recognized quality of any commercial cotton seed. These seed are triple cleaned 
treated with Ceresan, and sacked in Harper’s trademarked sealed bags. 
The price is $1.50 a bushel, freight prepaid in Texas, shipments of three bushels or more. 
The Texas freight rate is allowed on out-of-State shipments. We do not accept orders less than 
three bushels. We offer very attractive prices on 100 and 300 bushel lots. 
WATSON COTTON 
Improved from Mebane—State Registered 
An Easy-Picking Cotton 
The Watson Cotton, on account of its many desirable characteristics, has now become one 
of the most popular varieties grown in the Southwest. Without a doubt, it is the easiest picking 
cotton in Texas. Many farmers say the difference in picking, alone, is worth the price of the 
seed. 
The Watson Cotton has been bred, grown and developed, from the famous Mebane Cotton, 
in Dallas County, Texas, by Ferris Watson, a Cotton Breeder of more than twenty-five years’ 
experience. 
Watson Cotton is early fruiting with light foliage. It usually matures its crop from one 
to two weeks earlier than other standard varieties. The remarkable heavy yielding qualities 
no doubt are accounted for by the fact that its earliness, alone, enables it to mature its heavy 
crop of large five-lock bolls before the insects have time to destroy them. Its long, penetrating 
roots enable it to stand drouth remarkably well. Its staple usually runs from 1 inch to 1-1/16 
inches. Under normal condition 1,200 to 1,300 pounds of seed cotton will produce a bale of 
500 to 525 pounds of lint. 
Watson Pedigreed seed are ginned on exclusive gins, where no other cotton is ginned. The 
seed are cared for in the most modern pedigreed seed plant in the South, and are put up in 
3-bushel bags. We carry a large stock of these seed and can make prompt shipment of any 
quantity desired. 
Price, $1.75 per bushel. In lots of 3 bushels or more freight prepaid to points in Texas. In 
shipments of 3 bushels or more, Texas freight rate allowed on out-of-state shipments. 
CANADA FIELD PEAS 
(Pisum Sativum Arvense) 
INOCULATE SEED WITH NITRAGIN “C” 
Plant during the months of October and November, and again in the early spring. 
They improve the soil by gathering and storing nitrogen. Yield heavy crops that may be 
grazed or made into hay, that stock eat greedily and thrive on. Grows 4 to 6 feet high, 
but can be grazed when 6 to 10 inches high. Pasturing the Peas makes them stool out 
better. It is a good idea when sowing the Peas to mix a bushel of oats, barley or wheat 
with 50 Pounds of Peas per acre. This makes a fine mixture and makes good hay. If sown 
alone, sow about 75 pounds per acre, broadcast. Crop of this kind is splendid to plow 
under for green manure. Also used as a table Pea and is only excelled by the English Pea. 
Lb., 25c; 2 lbs., 45c, postpaid. Not prepaid, 20 lbs., $1.75. Ask for prices on larger quan¬ 
tities. 
AUSTRIAN PEAS 
(Pisum Arvense) 
INOCULATE SEED WITH NITRAGIN “C” 
This wonder plant makes a heavy vine 
growth that will decay very rapidly when 
plowed under. 
As a cover crop, it only needs ten to twelve 
pounds of growth to each 10 feet square, to 
plow under for fertilizer. It therefore can be 
planted in South Texas and Louisiana as early 
as the first of January; in North Texas, Jan¬ 
uary 15 to February 1. Other crops planted 
on the same soil, following the plowing under 
of Austrian Peas, will show a tremendous 
increase in yield. Cattle, sheep and hogs will 
graze on a field of Austrian Peas and enjoy 
't- A greater tonnage of hay can be obtained 
when planted with oats, the oats acting as a 
support for the peas and encouraging their 
growth. 
The most economical manner is to plant 
Austrian Peas in rows. In doing this, one 
should plant in three-foot rows such as in 
planting corn, then turn back and plant be¬ 
tween the rows, thus giving you 8-inch rows 
when finished. It requires only 30 pounds to 
plant an acre in this way. 
If wanted for pasture or hay, sow broadcast, 
60 pounds to the acre; also 60 pounds to the 
acre when sown with an ordinary grain drill. 
If you desire to sow with small grain such 
as oats, we suggest sowing one or two bushels 
of oats to the acre about as deep as the drill 
will put the oats, and then plant back over the 
oats with the Peas at the rate of 30 to 40 
pounds to the acre, putting the Peas just 
deep enough to cover good, without disturbing 
the oats. This system of planting is neces¬ 
sary, as a mixture of peas and oats will not 
mix evenly enough to drill out uniformly. 
Sow in fall or early spring. Lb., 25c; 2 lbs., 
45c, postpaid. Not prepaid, 20 lbs., $1.75. Ask 
for prices on larger quantities. 
NICHOLSON’S organization is made up of seedspeople with years of training and experience 
in their respective departments. Add to this our prompt handling of your order and it shows a 
real desire on our part to give you the quality and service you want. 
Harper Cotton 
Treat Your Cotton 
with Ceresan 
1— Controls damping-off, caused 
by seed-borne and certain 
soil-borne organisms and seed 
rotting. 
2— Reduces damage caused by 
angular leaf spot, anthrac- 
nose and boll rot. 
3— Makes possible earlier plant¬ 
ing and produces heavier 
stands. 
4— Generally produces heavier 
yields of better quality. 
(See page 61) 
A Field of Austrian Winter Peas 
DALLAS, TEXAS 
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