I?USSELL-nEClCLE 
SEED COMPANY 
D. AND P. L. (Deltapine) 11-A 
FOUNDATION PLANTING COTTON SEED 
BRED AND GROWN BY 
DELTA AND PINE LAND CO., SCOTT, MISS. 
Again the Russell Heckle Seed Company is happy to present 
Deltapine 11-A foundation planting seed. Last year, 1938, we 
accepted the distributorship of Deltapine from the originators 
because we believed in it. Believing in its great merits we 
recommended it, and our friends and customers accepted our 
recommendation to the extent of buying from us 84,375 bushels 
of D.P.L. Foundation planting seed. 
When this was written (October 18th, 1939) wo had already 
sold for 1940 planting more D.P.L. than we had sold at same 
date last year. The reason is simple—Deltapine is the outstand¬ 
ing short staple cotton known today, and has been for the past 
five years. A farmer is not hard to convince when he sees 
with his own eyes Deltapine producing for his neighbor so much 
more than he is able to make with another variety. 
There is no ballyhoo about the Delta & Pine Land Company; 
and no mystery about their methods. They welcome visitors 
from all over the world, and gladly show them the entire planta¬ 
tion, and explain their methods. They are easily the best known 
planters in the South, and have a world-wide reputation as 
cotton breeders. 
Dr. J. W. Fox, internationally known agriculturist, has directed 
the farming operations of the Company for 26 years. Mr. E. C. 
Ewing, who organized the cotton breeding work of the Mississippi 
Experiment Station beginning in 1911, has been in charge of 
the Company's Experimental work for 24 years. To him goes 
the credit for Deltapine 11-A to which variety the Company plants 
its entire acreage at Scott, Miss. 
The Delta & Pine Land Company maintains around 200 acres in 
experimental work. When a certain variety shows distinct advan¬ 
tages over other known varieties, the Company adopts the new 
variety and tests it out by planting a considerable acreage. When 
under field conditions, the new variety has demonstrated its 
merits, they discard all the other varieties and plant their entire 
property to the improved variety. The Company sells no seed 
until they ore so convinced of its merits that they fj^ont their entire 
acreage in the newly developed variety. And that's the story of 
D. & P. L. (Deltapine) 11-A—it has proven the most profitable cotton 
among all those tested for years. When and if they find a cotton 
that will produce greater revenue, they will adopt it, for after all 
their business is primarily the production of cotton. Their experi¬ 
mental work goes on continually. 
D. & P. L. (Deltapine) 11-A is the most productive variety the 
Company has ever planted in its 27 years of existence. They 
began growing this strain in 1936, and for three years, 1936, 1937, 
and 1938, hove produced an average yield of 646 pounds of lint 
per acre on an overage acreage of 10,(300 acres. When this was 
written, October 1939, the 1939 crop was not all gathered but the 
yield is estimated to be 700 to 750 pounds per acre, on 8,534 
acres. Such a record is truly remarkable. 
D. & P. L. (Deltapine) 11-A combines an unusually high lint 
percentage with a good staple. In the Delta the lint percentage 
runs 38% to 39%; outside the Delta 39% to 42%. In the Delta the 
staple is 1-1/16 to 1-3/32 Inches long, and in the hills the staple 
runs from 1 inch to 1-1/16 inches. The bolls are medium size but 
fewer bolls ore required to make a pound than from many other 
varieties having larger bolls. It is unusually easily picked, but 
also fairly storm resistant. 
All seed are de-linted, and chemically treated with Ceresan, 
which means they will go much further in planting and give much 
more Improved stands. All seed are packed in 100-lb sealed bags, 
bearing the C3ompany Pine Tree trade mark. All seed grown on 
the Delta & Pine Land Company properties at Scott and Deeson, 
Miss. 
Persons desiring pure D. & P. L. (Deltapine) 11-A are warned by 
the Company that Fonudatlon first year D. & P. L. (Deltapine) 11-A 
seed can only be purchased from the Delta & Pine Land Company 
or from duly authorized and licensed dealers, of whom Russell- 
Heckle Seed Company are one. 
D. & P. L. (Deltapine) 11-A at State Experiment Station. 
ARKANSAS 
D. & P. L. (Deltapine) 11-A average rank at all ten locations 
combined was first in value, and second only to Half & Half in 
yield of lint for 1936, 1937 and 1938. 
ALABAMA 
Deltapine Cotton has the best record of any variety that has 
been tested for as long as five years. 
LOUISIANA 
Deltapine has ranked first, without exception, in each of the 
last three years in the variety test of the Louisiana Station at 
Baton Rouge, located on bench land. Deltapine is recognized as 
the best generally grown variety in Louisiana. 
OKLAHOMA 
D. & P. L. 11-A has ranked high in variety tests and demonstra¬ 
tions in Eastern Oklahoma since these tests have been conducted 
by the Extension forces. 'The variety is increasing in popularity 
in Eastern Oklahoma, where it is now reported to be the leading 
variety. 
MISSOURI 
In the two-year variety tests of the Missouri Station, conducted 
at Steele, D. & P. L. 11-A ranked first. In the tests at Sikeston this 
cotton has a good record, though we are advised that the yield 
was not as good as usual there and at Senath in 1938 because of 
poor seed. 
TENNESSEE 
Results of variety tests have not been published in recent years 
by the Tennessee Station. D. 5. P. L. 11-A is one of the most widely 
grown cottons in this state, being one of the few recommended by 
extension officials. 
AVERAGE LINT YIELDS OF COTTON VARIETIES TESTED BY MISSISSIPPI EXPERIMENT 
STATIONS FOR 5 YEARS 
State 
Holly Springs 
Variety 
College 
Hill 
Valley 
Lbs. 
Lbs. 
Lbs. 
Deltapine A (D. & P. L. 11-A) (a)... 
544.3 
457.4 
779.9 
Miller . 
531.8 
440.4 
719.1 
Cleveland 54 . 
506.5 
410.9 
672.6 
Stoneville 2B (b) . 
502.5 
464.0 
734.8 
Stoneville 5 . 
495.6 
445.2 
770.0 
Acala 892 (c) . 
487.9 
471.0 
743.6 
Delfos 531B (d) . 
476.7 
385.1 
699.5 
Half & Half . 
469.7 
511.2 
787.0 
Rowden (e) . 
449.4 
411.0 
665.5 
Missdel 7 (f) . 
389.2 
343.4 
569.3 
Washington (Delfos 719) .. 
493.4 
436.4 
701.2 
(a) D. & P. L. 11, 1933 and 1934. 
(b) Stonsville 2, 1933, 1934, and 1935, Stoneville 2A, 1936. 
(c) Acala 4067, 1934; Acala 891, 1935, 1936, and 1937. 
(d) Delfos 531, 1934 and 1935; Delfos 531A, 1936. 
Raymond (1) 
Hill Valley Poplarville 
Natchez (2) 
Stoneville 
Delta 
Period 
Averages 
All 
Stations 
Lbs. 
Lbs. 
Lbs. 
Lbs. 
Lbs. 
Lbs. 
491.6 
548.9 
407.4 
704.0 
566.8 
562 
464.0 
524.0 
373.4 
595.8 
527.5 
522 
461.7 
502.6 
412.2 
619.0 
489.8 
509 
478.4 
519.4 
396.2 
665.7 
512.2 
534 
501.7 
547.3 
408.1 
598.7 
525.5 
536 
470.2 
529.3 
357.9 
564.6 
487.1 
514 
420.7 
443.7 
333.4 
492.9 
515.1 
471 
519.3 
458.8 
462.0 
478.2 
465.8 
519 
432.5 
496.2 
309.4 
530.8 
509.1 
476 
367.3 
473.8 
305.4 
485.1 
426.7 
420 
446.2 
494.4 
337.3 
494.5 
496.3 
486 
Rowden 5031, 1934, 1935, 
Missdel 1, 1934 and 1935. 
and 1936; 
Rowden 7017, 
1937. 
(1) Four-year average 1933-1937; no reports published for 1936 and 1938 
(2) Five-year average 1933-1937; no report published for 1938. 
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