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EMPIRE WILT RESISTANT 
(State Certified) 
Empire Cotton was developed at the Georgia 
Experiment Station 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 out-turn 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 1949 crop, and it is 
evident from the orders that we have sold 
in the fall of 1949 that there will be a much 
bigger acreage in Empire in 1950—perhaps 
more than the supply of pure seed available 
will meet. 
For prices see list enclosed. 
with 
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 14% inch to 1% 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 
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. P. L. 15 
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. 
For prices see list enclosed. 
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, this is an early cotton, medium 
height, erect open type, with well spaced 
fruiting branches. It matures right along 
with Deltapine short cotton. Large bolls 70 
to 75 to pound, open wide, fluff beautifully— 
Cotton pickers everywhere like it. Lint out- 
turn is 36% to 38%, plenty good. Staple runs 
from 14% to 13/16 in length; average of those 
reporting to us in 1949 was 1 3/16. 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 438c; next 
at 45c per pound. Another planter received 
average of 43.8l1c per pound on over 700 bales. 
He’ averaged above a bale and a quarter 
per acre. 
For prices see list enclosed. 


Treat Your Cotton Seed with Ceresan 
WE WILL ARRANGE IT FOR YOU 
If you are too busy, we will get it done for you, 
quickly and reasonably, and cull your seed at the 
same time. 
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 
If you have a small quantity of seed to treat 
Write for full direc- 
tions on how to make a Rotary Treater for disinfect- 
price. 
you can handle them yourself. 
ing seeds. 
RUSSELL-HECKLE « 
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 
stands of healthy plants. 


CERESAN 
Cotton growers know that poor stands reduce yields and 
mean replanting. You can increase your profits 10 to 20% 
HELPS COTTON GROWERS 
CUT DISEASE LOSSES 
rofits, and often 
y obtaining full 
HOW CERESAN HELPS 
REDUCES SEED DECAY AND DAMPING-OFF—Ceresan, an organic mercury 
dry disinfectant, is applied to the cotton seed before planting. 
It helps pro- 
tect seed against decay in cold, wet soil and the young seedlings against 
damping-off or sore-shin. Ceresan generally insures good stands, and often 
saves replanting. 
CHECKS CERTAIN SEED-BORNE DISEASES—Ceresan also reduces the losses 
in stand caused by certain diseases carried on the surface of the seed, such 
as anthracnose or pink boil rot, and angular leaf-spot. 
IMPROVES STANDS AND YIELDS—Experiment station tests prove Ceresan 
seeds in all cases. 
increases stands and yields. In tests by ARKANSAS, Ceresan gave increased 
emergence of 34%, and an increased yield of 14.5%. 
In LOUISIANA, Ceresan gave 15.8% increase in emergence in two years’ 
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 you to plant earlier because it pro- 
tects the seed from decay and reduces damping-off losses and thus usually 
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 
seed. Postpaid, 11 Ibs., $1.40; 25 lbs., $16.79. 
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