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TO DOUBLE AMERICA’S COTTON CROP, Olartlinf jjesuea of Patient Bxperiments by JKvernment Agriculturists. JQUY ELLIOT T Ml rCHELL -1rT.,t i nitT‘~^~lT—~T "7'** ’ ■> Agricultura With th® cotton crop of the United Htates reaching an annual value of nearly $<j00,000,000 It I® easy to see that the man who cun make It worth four or five cents a pound more to tlie grower will p.ut 'a few dollars of ,fr.pending money . Into the pockets of R.ibe southern piaaters. ]o This Improvement of the crop has ie;>n realized, ®ud there is no reason Tl/ffiy In ten year» from now the whole the ¡Cotton belt should not be grow- ar pra longer Staple cotton worth on the ... ¿erage of cents a pound more ‘ than the prepent crop. Of course this — --i™ o of ; things will not 'ulilenlal condition t. b< altogether —„—j, realized, / , - That there zlltoai' tleclded ' and general advance In the valui uehof the crop as tbe result of worts already don» by the Agricul- ORDINARY COTTON STAPLE. SELECTED AND IMPROVED COTTON. uud If the planters will co-operate with the department to even a reasonable degree the value of the whole cotton crop In the United States can be vastly enhanced without planting a single additional acre, and there will Still be enough land available in the cotton belt to assure the United States of its supremacy in the cotton world for many years to come. Cream Separator on the Farm. It has been only a few years since ie manufacturers of separators brought out band machines with the definite purposes of making them pop ular and selling them in large num bers, says the Fanner’s Wife in a well considered editorial. From that time to this they have gained friends, and now it is rare to hear anyone say anything against them, and when this does happen one may be sure it comes from some person who has been in- jured by their use, and this is never the man who provides. The hand separator has so many advantages over the creamery sepa- rator that the whole creamery busi- ness is being revolutionized and re- UNITED STATES RECLAMATION. Plowing by Co-Operative Traction engines. By C. J. Blanchard. A million acres will be added to the cultivatable area of the country during the next three years, under the various government irrigation projects. Most of this acreage is raw land upon which the plow has never turned a furrow. Thousands of new settlers will be lo cated there and for several years the principal work will be clearing, level ing, and plowing, to prepare the land to receive the water. Over vast stretches the sage brush is the only vegetation. In other places the bunch grass makes a tough sod, unyielding and hard to break. The subjugation to agriculture of this new empire has attracted the attention of the manufacturers of implements and machinery. They see in this work a virgin field for the products of their factories. As most of the settlers go ing upon this land are not in af fluent circumstances, and as feed for stock will be scarce and costly, any proposition which will eliminate the necessity for the purchase of horses, plows and forage will naturally prove interesting. It has occurred to the writer that In more like the old upland cotton than it is like Egyptian or Sea Island. SEEDS OF NEW TYPES. The parent types from which it has been evolved are listed and carded in the department’s collection, and each year as the fresh crops come in from the Improved fields their output is carded for comparison. These new types have now reached a point where the department feels justified in send ing out tlie new seed to the farmers. And if the farmers will tnke a little trouble and spend prr-tlcally no money at all, they will be ab.e to keep up the improved strains so that in a few years the American cotton crop will have been doubled in value with out necessarily expanding by a single acre. It has been tedious work, and has been carried on systematically. “Score cards” such as are used in jnilgiug at stock shows are kept. The records of tlie individual plants are known, the shape and opening quali ties of the boil, the date of maturing, the length and firmness of tlie cotton liber and tlie degree to which the parent plant may lie depended upon to transmit its desirable qualities to its progeny. Tlie work lias been done In the open held and not in the care fully tended plots of tlie experiment stations. Thousands of plants have been destroyed each year, and only the best types kept. These have again been weeded out the following year, and only the best of tlie breed have been kept. The farmers who have been co-operating with the de partment in the work have been as a rule careful, enthusiastic and pains taking under the direction of the ex perts sent Into the field by the depart ment, and slowly but surely the length DISK PLOW DRAWN BY TRACTION ENGINE. of the staple and other desirable quali ties in the new cotton have Increased, till tlie department now feels it has a modeled because of these handy little every one of these projects there is an excellent opportunity for the use of new and fixed type that can be de machines. It is hard to find a place to begin to powerful traction engines, accom pended on to perpetuate its desirable enumerate their advantages. In the panied by gang plows and harrows. qualities. One thing that has been carefully item of traveling to the creamery These engines could be purchased and observed Is to keep growing the new there is a great saving. Where the managed by a number of settlers or types on the ground where they will dairy owner has one of these ma they could be operated by one man be cultivated commercially. There chines, he need not go to the cream who would contract to do the work. are several new strains adapted to ery more than three times a week In Up in the Northwest Territories a slightly different conditions of soil the warm weather and twice in a Michigan man is preparing to intro and climate. It has been found In week during the colder months. duce this method of custom plowing When cream only instead of the and cultivating. He is building a plow tlie case of wheat, for example, that a strain may be Improved In one lo whole milk is delivered to the cream which will turn nine furrows, each cality, and that by moving it to new ery, the item of hauling is reduced to fourteen inches wide, and with a trac surroundings It shows little, If any, its lowest limits. Say ten cans of milk tion engine which he has designed improvement over the local type. This a day is the product of a given dairy. will plow 33 acres per day. He has error has been avoided with the new Where a hand separator is used, haul- already contracted for 2,700 acres at $3 per acre for plowing, and expects to close arrangements for a much larger area. tural Depaftmi’Ut 1« certain. Hut there are always tlie factors of ignorance, indifference and , prcjuuice to lie reckoned with anti that will hold de« n, tin grand tol.il of the advance. Thm Is tmmnn nature. Otherwise etery one.wouK be raising thorough bred stoelf, cats and chickens, which cifct bo more to feed and rear- than scrubs, -but everyoqa dot's not breed thoroughbreds, whether they be dogs r cows, pud so it 1» a certainty that ion tho arbrage of the cotton crop vastly Improved by the use of iter seed __ there __ will __ be ’ a large num- ilahters who are sticking to the thods nntf complaining because <1 it hard to make a living. SEVERAL MEW STRAIN’S. ■ It la a fact, however, that the De partment of Agriculture lias, by several •years of persistent work, bred from the old -vftrletlea of cotton raised In the ttoutli several new »trains of cotton that, while having nil the desirable qualities of t! te Old types, produce n Staple that 1» almost a ltalf longer. It Is Just one branch of t)ie general Industry of plant breeding, and the”result, as shown by x the cotton Itself cpmlwd out In fleecy Whitefiess on a black card. Is a striking object lesson in the possibilities of plant breeding. The Department has been at the work for some years, and In the course Of Its experiments has handled thou sands of samples ami hundreds of thousands of individual plants In mak- ’"'TRS-tbe selections that are now con sidered good enough to be »ent out as new fixed types. The story of tills Improvement Is a long one. inter- ■porsed |wlth ninuy disappointments. But the result now is success beyond contradiction. Northerners, people who live outside the cotton belt, do not realize Just what a long staple cotton A COTTON PLANT IMPROVED BY SELECTION, grown, on tho uplands means. Cotton the department not only Ing is reduced from taking the ten Is our principal export crop. It is the cotton, seed that will give best cans to the creamery every day to second most valuable crop grown In know* the United States, corn coming first. results, but the condition of soil an<l taking two cans of cream every other It la the principal crop of ten state», cllnmte that are best suited to the re- day, or three cans twice a week. and in large areas of these states it is quirement» of each strain. The hand separator allows the almost the only crop grown. The dairyman to feed the skim milk to IE FARMERS WILL HELP. United States furnishes live-sixths of The farmera at large can help great calves or pigs within a few minutes the cotton crop of the whole world, ly in keeping up the work that ha* of the time it Is drawn from the udder und while there are great areas, espe been given n practical start by the de and before the natural animal heat cially in Africa, that are adaptable to partment. There are simple methods leaves It. This saves warming the cotton, there Is no prospect that the of seed »election that will insure a milk and allows Its use when it Is per United States will be overtaken ns a steady improvement In each successive fectly sweet and fresh. producer for many years to come. crop, and that will prevent the crops The hand separator saves hauling The world’s consumption of cotton and from deteriorating. The selection of skim milk from the creamery to the the consequent demand are Increasing seed takes n little care and intelli farm, and It also saves the dairyman steadily, so that there Is little prospect gence, but It Is not deeply abstruse I from the risk of getting milk from dis of over-production. All these things work, and the department has reduced eased cows to feed to his young stock. ore ID OUr favor. Then come» tlie It to simple directions that are easy This is not a great risk, to be sure. question of Improving this groat crop for any planter to foil ,w. I but It Is worth considering. Tuber Outsider* do not renllze that tin The "cotton belt,” so called, in the culous cows are frequently found In eighth of %n Inch on the ' -ngth of the United States is clearly defined. this country, and probably there is hardly a creamery among the patrons of which no cows suffering from this disease could be found. If the dairyman is sure of his own cows, the hand separator saves him from the risk of getting tuberculous milk from the mixture in the milk vat at the creamery, from which he gets his skim milk when he delivers the whole milk. Tin1 saving In work Is a large Item. Instead of ten cans to care for ana keep clean and free from germs, there are only two. Tills saves labor and the Investment of money In utensils. At the low price at which hand sepa rators are sold, one will pay for Itself time nn<l again before It wears out. on the various items of economy men tloned above. There Is another Item. The hand separator Is rapidly bringing about the centralization of the creamery In dustry. Cream gathered from hand separators Is now transport*»! a» fai as 2OG miles to the central creamery, and here It Is made Into butter at MIADING COTTON AT SAVANNAH much less cost than would be possible In the local creamery with a limited > a cotton boll means a cent a ton I* planted over the whole of field In which to operate. This allows additional on the value of tho that there Is no large addition of range the creamery to pay a better price for Now by careful breeding and to the plant likely. It la true that the butter fat and gives the dairyman the Department of Agrieul- acreage wlthlu the belt <-ould possibly more money from his cows. bu» produced catton that runa be doubled, but that la not the thing Tho man who keeps as few as five artera of an inch to an the detuirtment la after. Good cotton cows will find It to his advantage to piarter longer than the land now yield* 400 to 800 pounds to buy a ha separator, especially If be from which it was pro- the acre. What the department on the farm, for In such la not a freak growth, would like I* to ace this yield doubled makes saving In work Is much la tmpreveaaent that has In value ami In quantity. The founda • creamery takes lytic, and la no tion for th la Increase Is now firmly laid. men than he in the service, but he stuck to them through thick and thin and they appreciate it.” Th» fre quency with which men state this as a reason for success is significant. It shows that the man of the hour is th» faithful man, the man who makes his employers’ interests his own uud whose loyalty never wavers. Associated more or less with all these requisites and overshadowing them all is bard work. "For this,” said President James J. 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