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r * >1 I ' X Í Y f KIl M fol mol nod nr« u uOLBLt AMLPICA’b COTTON CROP. ’•Ar. Results of Patient Experiments by Government Agriculturists. >£ GUV ELLIOTT MITCHELL jonrteey Department >t Agriculture. V LQShe cotton crop of the United ¿¿•Weuchlng an annual value of fj>JF«l00,0OO,<kX) it is easy to see man wlli> can mnl£e wortli IM •wv “J flve eent8 a pound more to the •».T* will put a few dollars of WwP6 «honey into the pockets of Ithern planters. ¡¡iS» improvement of the crop lias Tealized, and there is no reason tvhy in ten years from now the whole of the cotton belt should not be grow ing a longer staple cotton worth on the verage of 4^ cents a pound more in the present crop. Of course this '.lllenial condition of things will not e altogether realized. That there fill be a decided and general advance i the value of the crop as the result of fork already done by the Agricul- ;â I h" f t « l\ ■( \' « W ORDINARY COTTON STAPLE. SELECTED AND IMPROVED COTTON. more like the old upland cotton than it is like Egypt^n 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 the new seed to the farmers. And if the farmers will take a little trouble and spend practically 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 judging at stock shows are kept. The I records of the individual plants are known, the shape and opening quail- | ties of the boll, the date of maturing. 1 the length nnd firmness of the cotton fiber and the degree to which the parent plant may be depended upon to transmit its desirable qualities to its progeny. The work has been done in I ■■ #<■ tlie open field and not in the care fully tended plots of the experiment statlops. 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 tile breed have been kept. The farmers who have been co-operating with the de partnient 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 bard 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 sy 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, be 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 duce this method of custom plowing and climate. It has been found in week during the colder months. 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 Department is certain. But there nre always the factors of ignorance. Indifference and prejuuice to lie reckoned with, nnd that will hold 'own the grand total of tlie advance. This is human nature. Otherwise «ry one would lie raising tborough- \d stock, cats and chickens, which ( no more to feed and rear than Jis, but everyone does not breed uiglibreds, whetlier they be doge 1 ws. and so It Is a certain!y that I ,tlie average of the cotton crop i itly improved by the use of < there will be a large num- . planters who are sticking to the 442 I ,.•« CRT . „ liecause _____ i rtf methods and complaining the’ ^nil hard to make a living. i i the«,- AJtd it bard / / [IAL NEW strains STRAINS. . '7]hct, that ' tlie De- e ir 1 ‘ however, ‘ ‘ ~ 1/ pnr^p. ” J/ijf -iigrii-uiiureiiiiH, Agriculture lias, ' uy by several several // yeni,,. fJWrslstent work, bred from tlie A / toniv < s c°fr°n fnlsed in tlie % sout ”jK-rnl new strains of cotton tlint, r willli "fix ing nil the deslralile qualities of tlie old types, produce a staple that is alinost n linlf longer. It is Just one branch of the general Industry of plant breeding, mid tlie result, ns sliown by j the cotton itself combed out In fleecy ' whiteness on a black curd, I h a striking j object lesson in the possibilities of plant breeding. The Department ltns is'en nt the work for some years, and in tile course of its exiH'rlnients has handled thou sands of samples mid hundreds of k thousands of Individual plants In mak- ting tlie selections tlint are now con- ■Idereil good enough to lie sent out ns new fixed types. Tile story of tills improvement Is a long one. inter- spersed with many dlsnppolntnients. But the result now Is success beyond contradiction. Northerners, people who live outside tlie cotton licit, do not reallxe Just what a long staple cotton A COTTON PLANT IMPROVED BY SELECTION. grown on the uplands means. Cotton Is our principal export crop. It Is tlie cotton, nnd the department not only Ing Is reduced from taking the ten wrond most valuable crop grown In knows the seed that will prive beat cans to the creamery every day to the United States, corn coming first. results, but the condition of soil and taking two cans of cream every other It is the principal crop of ten states, climate tlint are best suited to the re day, or three cans twice a week. nnd in large areas of these states it is quirements of each strain. The hand separator allows the almost tlie only crop grown. The dairyman to feed the skim milk to IF FARMERS IV1I.L HELP. United States furnishes five-sixths of The farmers at large can help great calves or pigs within a few minutes tlie cotton crop of the whole world, ly In keeping up the work that has of the time It Is drawn from the udder and while there are great areas, espe been given a 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 selection that will insure a milk and allows Its use when It is per* United States will lie overtaken as a steady Improvement In each successive fectly sweet and fresh. producer for many years to come crop, nnd that will prevent the crops The hand separator nave» hauling I The world's consumption of cotton and from deteriorating. The selection of skim milk from the creamery to the tlie consequent demand nre Increasing seed takes a little care nnd Intelli farm, and it also saves the dairyman steadily, so that there Is little prospect gence, but it Is not deeply abstruse 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 bis young stock. arc In our favor. Thon conies tlie it to simple directions that are easy This Is not a great risk, to be sure, question of improving tills great crop. for any planter to folljw. but It Is worth considering. Tuber Outsiders do not realize tlint an The “cotton belt,*’ so called, in the culous cows are frequently found In eighth of au inch ou the ’“ngth of the United States is clearly defined. Cot- this country, and probably there is hardly a creamery among the patrons of which no cows suffering from Ji 1 this disease could be found. If the dairyman is sure of his own cows, the band 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 'S skim milk when he delivers the wholv milk. I < Lit il; T The saving In work Is n large Item. Instead of ten cans to care for ana "k- ■f—* *—I (Bl keep clean and free from germs, there are only two. This saves labor and 111 the Investment of money In utensils. At the low price at which hand sepa rators are sold, one will pay for Itself time and again before It wears out. on the various Items of economy men tinned above. There is another Item. The band separator Is rapidly bringing about the centralisation of the creamery In dustry. Cream gathered from hand separators Is now transported as fai as 200 miles to the central creamery, and hera It Is made Into butter at OAniN'n COTTON AT SAVANNA!!. much less cost than would be possible In the local creamery with a limited flt>cr In n catton boll means ft cent a ton la planted over the whole of it so field In which to operate. This allows potiud additional on the value of the that there Is no large addition of range the creamery to pay a better price for crop. Now by careful breeding and to the plant likely. It Is true that the butter fat and gives the dairyman «election the Department of Agricul acreage within the licit could possibly more money from his cows. ture has produced cottou that runs be doubled, but that Is not the thing The man who keeps as few as five from three-quartera of an inch to an the department Is after. Hood cotton rill find It to bls advantage to Inch and a quarter longer, than tlie land now yleUts 400 to H00 pounds to hand separator, especially if be «parent pl'its from which it pro tlie acre What the i!.>rsrt«»eBt on the farm, for tn such duced. This I* not a freak growjh. would like Is to sec thia yield rtcirffiM a case butter the saving In work Is much In value and In quautity. The founda greater than where a creamery taken tion for thia lucre««« la now firmly laid, i J' •* II \\ I J® « » F >• * « v and If the planters will co-operate with | UNITED STATES DEClASlATIUi. the department to even a reasonable degree the value of the whole cotton Piowlng by Co-Operative Traction crop in the United States can be vastly Engines. enhanced without planting a single By C. J. Blanchard. additional acre, and there will still be A million acres will be added to the enough land available in the cotton belt to assure the United States of its cultivatable area of the country during supremacy in the cotton world for the next three years, under the various government irrigation projects. Most many years to come. of this acreage is raw land upon which the plow has never turned a furrow. (ream Separator on the farm. Thousands of new settlers will be lo It has been only a few years since cated there and for several years the the manufacturers of separators principal work will be clearing, level ing, and plowing, to prepare the land brought out band machines with the to receive the water. definite purposes of making them pop Over vast stretches the sage brush ular and selling them in large num is the only vegetation. In other places bers, says the Farmer’s Wife in a the bunch grass makes a tough sod, unyielding and hard to break. The well considered editorial. From that subjugation to agriculture of this new time to this they have gained friends, empire has attracted the attention of and now it is rare to hear anyone say the manufacturers of implements and anything against them, and when this machinery. They see in this work a virgin field for the products of their does happen one may be sure it comes factories. As most of the settlers go from some person who bas been in- ing upon this land are not in af jured by their use, and this is never fluent circumstances, and as feed for stock will be scarce and costly, any the man who provides. which will eliminate the The band separator has so many proposition necessity for the purchase u horses, advantages over the creamery sepa- plows and forage will naturally prove rator that the whole creamery busl- interesting. ness is being revolutionized and re- It has occurred to the writer that in « men than be in the service, but he stuck to them through thick and thin and they appreciate it.’ J he fre quency with which men state this as a reason for success is significant. It shows that the man of the hour is the faithful man, the man who makes his employers' interests his own and whose loyalty never wavers. Associated more or less with ail these requisites and overshadowing them all is bard work. “For this,” said President James J. 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