For RECORD YIELDS Flant 
EMPIRE WILT RESISTANT 
(State Certified) 
Empire Cotton was developed at the Georgia 
Experiment Siation in cooperation with the 
United States Department of Agriculture. Wilt 
Resistance has been added through continued 
breeding. There was a need for quick-ma- 
turing, easy-to-pick cotton and Empire be- 
came popular quickly. Compared to Delta- 
pine it appears to be ten days earlier, and 
the yield in the field is excellent. The boll 
is large, lots of five locks, making it a favorite 
among pickers. Staple is a good inch to 
1 1/16 usually with even better length on 
good fertile soil with ample moisture present. 
Lint outturn at gin 35% to 38% which is 
satisfactory. It has a compact habit of growth, 
plants not as rank as some other varieties. 
Empire started in Georgia, spread to Ala- 
bama, and the Carolinas, and last year was 
planted heavily in Arkansas, Louisiana and 
Tennessee. Good reports are coming in from 
every direction on the 1948 crop, and it is 
evident from the orders that we have sold 
in the fall of 1948 that there will be a much 
bigger acreage in Empire in 1949—perhaps 
more than the supply of pure seed available 
will meet. 
We bought 
State Certified 
the only crop of Mississippi 
Empire Wilt Resistant Seed. 
For prices see list enclosed. 

Treat Your Cotton Seed with Ceresan 
WE WILL ARRANGE IT FOR YOU 
we will get it done for you, 
quickly and reasonably, and cull your seed at the 
same time. The culls would not grow good stalks 
anyway but will bring almost enough at oil mills to 
pay for cost of treating your seed. This is the Biggest 
If you are too busy, 
Boost you can give your Cotton Crop. 
Write us NOW how much seed you will want 
treated (it must be 5 tons or more), and we will name 
price. If you have a small quantity of seed to treat 
you can handie them yourself. Write for full direc- 
tions on how to make a Rotary Treater for disinfect- 
ing seeds. 

RUSSELL-HECKLE « 

FIELD COKER 100 STAPLE COTTON 
COKER'S WILDS 
Upland Long Staple 
Wilds cotton is recognized from Texas to the 
Carolinas, both by growers and manufacturers, 
as the outstanding upland long staple variety. 
It is an early maturing variety with staple 
length of 114 inch to 13% inch of high tensile 
strength and spinning value. 
Remember growing long staple cotton is a 
specialty. We do not recommend its planting 
by any new growers who are not familiar 
with the growing of same. 
For prices see list enclosed. 
DELTAPINE 15 COTTON 
(State Certified) 
The Deltapine Strain is the result of about 
thirty years of breeding under the direction 
of Mr. Early C. Ewing at the Deltapine Land 
Plantation in Mississippi. The present strain 
No. 15 is a refinement of No. 14 which every- 
one knows as a splendid cotton. D. Peels 
has a very high percentage of lint, 37% to 
41% in the Delta usually, often a little higher 
in hills. A medium early variety, storm re- 
sistant, Medium size boll, staple 1 inch to 
1 3/32 inches on good land with moisture 
present. For years Deltapine has given good. 
yields over the South. 
or prices see list enclosed. 
Cotton growers know 
stands of healthy plants. 
Saves replanting. 
increases stands and yields. 
emergence of 34%, 
In LOUISIANA, Ceresan 
seeds in all cases. 
seed. Postpaid, 114 
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CERESAN 
; that poor stands reduce yields and profits, and often 
mean replanting. You can increase your profits 10 to 20% by obtaining full 
HOW CERESAN HELPS 
REDUCES SEED DECAY AND DAMPING-OFF—Ceresan, 
dry disinfectant, is applied to the cotton seed 
tect seed against decay in cold, wet soil and 
damping-off or sore-shin. Ceresan generally insures good stands, and often 
CHECKS CERTAIN SEED-BORNE DISEASES—Ceresan also reduces the losses 
in stand caused by certain diseases carried 
as anthracnose or pink boil tot, and angular leaf-spot. 
IMPROVES STANDS AND YIELDS—Experiment station tests Prove Ceresan 
In tests by ARKANSAS, C 
and an increased yield of 
gave 15.8% 
tests, and 187 pounds increase in yield. 
In MISSISSIPPI tests Ceresan increased emergence over the non-treated seed 
by 19.3% and New Improved Ceresan by 29.3%. 
In TEXAS, Ceresan-treated seeds gave increased stands over untreated 
EARLIER PLANTING—Ceresan enables 
tects the seed from decay and reduces 
assures better stands, also early planting helps get ahead of the boll weevil. 
1 pound of 2% Ceresan is~enough to treat 5 to 8 bushels planting cotton 
lbs., $1.40; 25 lbs., $16.79. 

COKER 100 STAPLE 
“Extra Length—Bred for Delta’ 
This cotton is entirely different type from 
Coker 100 Wilt. It was bred for the farmers 
who want a longer cotton that carries a good 
price premium. For the Delta it offers a real 
opportunity for planting in 1949, while staple 
cottons are bringing premiums. 
First, 
height, 
an early cotton, medium 
erect open type, with well spaced 
fruiting branches. It matures right along 
with Deltapine short cotton. Large bolls 65 
to 70 to pound, open wide, fluff beautifully— 
Cotton pickers everywhere like it. Lint out 
turn is 36% to 38%, plenty good. Staple runs 
from 1¥g to 1 7/32 in length; average of those 
reporting to us in 1948 was 13/16. The 
production is high. Arkansas Penitentiary 
Farm at Cummins, Ark., in 1948 planted 100 
pounds each of three of the most popular short 
cotton varieties and 100 pounds of Coker 100 
Staple in a test. Coker’s produced 3,000 
pounds of lint cotton, closest yields of short 
cottons were 2,490, 2,239, 1,980 pounds. 
The price that 100 Staple brings plus the 
yield makes it very profitable. One planter 
sold 200 bales at 42c; next at 48c:; next 
at 45c per pound. Another planter received 
average of 43.8lc per pound on over 700 bales. 
He averaged above a bale and a quarter 
per acre. 
For prices see list enclosed. 
this is 
HELPS COTTON GROWERS 
CUT DISEASE LOSSES 
an organic mercury 
before planting. It helps pro- 
the young seedlings against 
on the surface of the seed, such 
issu eresan gave increased 
Oo. 
increase in emergence in two years’ 
you to plant earlier because it pro- 
damping-off losses and thus usually 
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