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D. & P. L. No. 12 COTTON 
For twenty years | have been producing dependable 
cotton planting seed for Southern farmers. During 
all this period, my first aim has been satisfied 
customers; for | know that a pleased customer is 
the best kind of advertising. 
It is our aim always to see that none but the purest 
and best seed leave our warehouses. | am a mem- 
ber of the Mississippi Seed Improvement Associa- 
tion, and all my seed are both field and warehouse 
inspected, for purity and germination. 
To produce the purest and best in cotton planting 
seed, we have invested a good many thousands of 
dollars in two modern gin plants, one at Soso, Miss., 
and the other in Tensas Parish, La. Both these gins 
are of steel and concrete construction, with steel 
and concrete seed warehouses adjoining. Through 
these gins, nothing but D. & P. L. No. 12 cotton is 
allowed to go. All seed are carefully stored in 
ventilated buildings, where they are later delinted, 
graded, and ceresan-treated. 
On these pages are some views of our facilities for 
producing good seed, from the field, through the 
gin and warehouses, and on to the farmer. 
More Dollars Per Acre Is the Test 
Personally, | do not claim to be a seed breeder. 
My job, as a cotton grower of 25 years’ experience, 
and 20 years as a producer of dependable planting 
seed for my thousands of grower-customers, is to 
find and reproduce what | believe to be the best. 
In doing this, it is my aim to abide by all the rules 
and regulations of the Mississippi Seed Improve- 
ment Association, an organization created under the 
auspices of the State Agricultural College and the 
State Department of Agriculture, for the sole pur- 
pose of producing the best in planting seeds for the 
farmers of Mississippi and adjoining states. 
In choosing a variety or strain of cotton, net dol- 
lars-and-cents return per acre is the criterion by 
which | am guided. From our experiment station 
tests, over a period of years, and from my own 
personal tests of and experience with different 
varieties and strains, | am led to the very positive 
conclusion that D. G P. L. No. 12 is the best cotton 
yet developed, from the standpoint of most-dollars- 
