THE BAGLEY SIGNAL e PAGE THREE 
LONG, TEDIOUS HOURS ARE BEHIND 
OUR SUCCESS IN COTTON BREEDING 
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THOUSANDS {Pon THOUSANDS of hours have 
been spent in endless toil bringing BAGLEY PEDIGREED 
COTTONSEED up to its present high standard of quality and 
purity. Our work is never finished. It is a continuous year-round 
job. Our breeding operations are enormous and the results 
achieved have been successful and indeed gratifying. We have 
never come to the point yet to say “it is good enough” but rather 
“pushing forward” is our motto and we are constantly in the 
field carefully seeking out those features which can be im- 
proved, and making such improvements as rapidly as possible 
so as to enable the Bagley Growers to make more profits. Our 
every effort is bent toward the end of developing our cotton 
to the finest degree of perfection. Our entire time and all of 
our thoughts, energy and resources are utilized in breeding and 
growing the very best ged that it is possible to produce, Every 
bushel of our Newest : een BAGLEY PEDIGREED COT- 
TONSEED is absolutely guaranteed to grow like we say it will 
made each season you can readily see that it is an immense and 
tedious job. In addition to our hybridization work we have thou- 
sands of individual boll, stalk, row and increase progenies 
that are studied and carried on from year to year. 
We want you to bear in mind that every single operation 
in the breeding, growing and handling of BAGLEY PEDI- 
GREED COTTONSEED is personally directed and carefully 
executed by ourselves. We do not entrust this job to others. We 
attend to every single phase of the work ourselves. The scien- 
tific and practical knowledge of the three members of our firm 
is devoted to the continued improvement of BAGLEY COT- 
TON. By having a firm member to look after each department 
of work we are better able to maintain and improve the quality 
of BAGLEY SEED than are those men, who, by necessity, have 
to place any phase or all of this important work in the hands of 
disinterested parties who only “half-do” the job. Shipping you 
quality seed means something to us. We are in the business to 
stay and satisfied customers are our best advertisement. We 
offer you better seed backed by 27 years of good sound breed- 
ing. When you invest in State Registered BAGLEY PEDI- 
GREED COTTONSEED you can be sure of getting seed that 
have been properly bred, grown, ginned and handled. 
under average and normal conditions. 
In the photo at the left and those below we are showing 
you an outline of one of the many phases of our cotton breeding 
work. When you consider that hundreds of these crosses are 

Aboye photo taken July 20 th (Shows Corolla being removed from mother 
bloom preparatory to making cross the following morning.) 



Ordinarily our BAGLEY 
Hybridization work forms an important part of our breeding pro- 
COTTON makes from 10 
cedure each season and the three large photos shown diagonally on this 
page outline the main steps in effecting a cross. During afternoon of 
July 20th the above flower bud was chosen for emasculation. This bud 
was recognized to be at the right stage of development due to the enlarged, 
ret twisted and folded, corolla; which showed that it was scheduled to 
open the following morning. The folded corolla (or bloom leaves) are 
Detag—eom0VE0—with a Sharp instrument as shown above. The anthers, or 
male part of this flower, ate next removed by gently and carefully cutting 
them off with intsrument. After the anthers are removed the flower is 
said to be emasculated leaving only the pistil, or female part of the flower. 
The stigma is the club-shaped portion at the top. A small paper bag is next 
tied over the emasculated flower bud and left until the next morning. To 
provide a supply of pure pollen, bags are tied over similar flower buds on 
plants of the strain that is to be crossed on the first. For next step see 
photo at right. 

BAGLEY PEDIGREED 
COTTON has a Smooth, 
Even, Strong, Hard 
Staple of an inch to an 
inch and one-sixteenth in 
length, depending on soil 
and season. It is not un- 
common to hear of grow- 
ers selling their BAG- 
LEY COTTON from 100 
to 200 points on which 
gives them from $5.00 to 
$10.00 per bale premium. 
The uniformity and 
good character of the 
Bagley Fiber, produced 
under normal conditions, 
commands a nice prem- 
ium wherever cotton is 
sold on staple merits. Cotton Textile Mills can afford to pay more for 
BAGLEY STAPLE COTTON which shows little waste in the spinning 
process. Much attention is being devoted each year to maintaining 
and improving the high quality staple which we now have. 
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BAGLEY COTTON is 
bred to give you an 
average Gin Turn-out 
of from 40 to 42%, de- 
pendent on soil and 
season. Lint Per Cent 
or Gin Turn-out is an 
important factor in 
figuring your returns 
per acre in Dollars and 
Cents. Every farmer 
likes to get a good 
Turn-out. It means you 
will save on your pick- 
ing and ginning and, 
production being the 
same, a good gin turn- 
out gives you more 
lint per acre. None of us grow cotton for the fun of growing it; what 
we are interested in is the returns we receive in Dollars and Cents. 
The Good Turn-out of BAGLEY COTTON lessens your cost of pro- 
duction thereby helping you to realize more Dollars and Cents on 
every acre. 


ABOVE, W. W. Bagley Jr. is shown, on the morning of July 21st, examining 
the anthers of the male bloom for the purpose of determining whether the pollen is 
being given off and is at the proper stage for transmissal to the emasculated bloom 
on the other plant. Also, it is noted in this examimation if male bloom is five-lock. 
If less than five-lock another of the hagged blooms is selected for crossing. A whole 
flower is removed from the plant that is to furnish the pollen. The anthers in this 
flower will be open showing a mass of yellow pollen. For next step see picture al 
right and details above photo, 


The Deep, Penetrating © 
Root System makes 
Bagley Cotton a real 
Drought Resister and 
insures you of a good 
yield per acre where 
other varieties suffer. 
Because of this. feat- 
ure the Bagley Plant 
continues to put on 
long after ordinary va- 
rieties, with poor root 
systems, have become 
completely exhausted, 
The Bagley stalk also 
has a healthy, vigor- 
ous lateral root spread 
that helps to increase 
production. The foun- 
dation of any structure should be of the very best material, You can 
rely on the Bagley Root System to do its part in making you more 
Dollars since we have emphasized this in our breeding work each 
year realizing that this is a very important feature. 




















to 20% .More Per Acre 
than common varieties. 
During our breeding pro- 
cedure, year after year, 
particular attention has 
been focused on develop- 
ing a sturdier, more vig- 
orous stalk; one that will 
develop squares and set 
bolls rapidly. Our present 
compact, pyramid - type 
stalks (shown on page 4) 
gives you an idea of the 
prolificness of our cot- 
ton. Our short - jointed, 
heavy -bearing fruiting 
branches with a maxi- 
mum of large, five-lock drooping bolls are added advantages of our 
BAGLEY COTTON. The Bagley Boll is easily picked, yet it will stay 
in the boll during wind and rain. It has a reasonably thin burr that 
opens nicely and picks clean. It is often reported by growers that a 
bale of good Bagley Cotton can be picked in one-half the time required 
to pick a bale of smaller boll cottons, 


















BELOW, the brush of anthers is rubbed against the stigma of the 
emasculated flower which is sticky, being coated with a sirup-like sub- 
stance to which pollen grains will adhere and in which they will germinate. 
When the work is done well, pollen can be seen on the stigma. The paper 
bag is again tied over the crossed flower to keep away insects, and left 
until the resulting boll opens. Tag is attached to the flower for our later 
recording, Usually from 50 to 75% of the crosses are successful, dependent 
on the weather and amount of shedding during period of boll enlargement. 

