) .R.B. BUCHANAN SEED CO. 94x 
MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE. 

BUCK BRAND TESTED SEEDS & 

The Delta and Pine Land Company has never offered a 
new variety or strain of cotton to the public until it was 
thoroughly tested in most of the Cotton Belt under a wide 
variation of soils and climatic conditions. Before final 
approval it must produce a high percentage of lint, satis- 
factory staple, and show good spinning quality. In these 
varied tests D.&P.L. 12 showed such marked improvement 
over D.&P.L. 11-A in productiveness, length of staple, lint 
turn out, and disease resistance that it was offered to the 
entire Cotton Belt in the spring of 1941 with absolute con- 
fidence in its superior performance, and these facts estab- 
lish it as a most dependable variety of seed. 
Our D.&P.L. 12 was grown on the Sycamore Bend 
Plantation at Hughes, Arkansas, and it is the only variety 
of cotton ginned on their private gin. THEY DO NOT 
GIN FOR THE PUBLIC. 
Sycamore Bend Plantation secures their planting seed 
each year from the originator and by planting only one 
variety and ginning their cotton only, it is not mixed in 
any way. Since cotton cross pollinates very little if any, 
their seed are, from every standpoint, comparable to the 
originators. 
D&PL 12 
Similar to 11-A 

BUT 
Decidedly 
Superior 
The land this seed was grown on is heavy, delta soil 
and practically new, which undeniably will produce a much 
stronger stalk, heavier yield of lint cotton and seed of a 
much stronger vitality that will express the dominant 
money making characteristics of D.&P.L. 12 better than 
land that has been planted in cotton for years and years. 
All seed are sacked in 100-lb. sealed bags at the gin 
and CERTIFIELD BY THE ARKANSAS STATE PLANT 
BOARD. This insures purity and freedom from disease. 
The seed we offer has been rigidly graded. It is treated 
with 2% Ceresan which means that it will not require 
as much seed to plant an acre and insures better stands. 
1,250 pounds of seed cotton gins out on an average of 
a 500-lb. bale, a lint turnout of 40% or better. In the 
Delta, the staple is 11/16 to 13/32 inches with a con- 
siderable quantity of 1% inches in good staple years. 
The following figures show accurate results on one 20-acre plot for six years which is representative of the entire 
plantation. Note the average value per acre, keeping in mind prices of the lint cotton and the seed. 
ee Produved ‘ Cotton Petree sed Seed Total Ayoinee 
Year Seed Acre Acres Lbs. Price Value Lbs. Ton Value Value Per Acre 
1936 A popular staple cotton.. 543 20 10,878 $12.50 $1,359.75 21,975 $43.19 $474.55 $1,834.30 $91.71 
1937 A popular staple cotton.. 695 20 13,915 7.80 1,085.37 15,894 20.00 158.94 1,244.31 62.21 
1938 A popular staple cotton.. 764 20 15,283 10.10 1,543.58 32,782 25.00 409.77 1,953.35 97.66 
1939 DeePP LA LISA 2S seme tienes 998 20 19,962 9.00 1,796.58 31,093 20.00 310.93 2,107.51 105.37 
1940 De PeTili= Ase cert ste st 995 20 19,896 10.75 2,138.82 32,460 25.00 402.00 2,463.40 123.17 
1941 1D)s Pe Np BAS esd: Pa WS Perici 1015 20 20,306 16.50 3,350.49 32,170 50.00 804.25 4,154.74 207.73 
This land cleared during the winter of 1935-1936. Has never had cover crop or commercial fertilizer. 
We are distributors in this area for the D.&P.L. 12 seed grown on Sycamore Bend Plantation. 


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