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TO DOUBLE AD
Startling Results of F
cot= Mizta2ons by Ootesy Department of Agri
With the cotton crop of the United
States reaching an annual value of
nearly $600,000,000 it is easy to see
that the man who can make it worth
four or five cents a pound more to the
grower will put a few dollars of
spending money into the pockets of
the southern planters.
This improvement of the crop has
been realized, and there is no reason
why In ten years from now the whole
of the cotton belt should not be grow
ing a longer staple cotton worth on the
average of 4% cents a pound more
than the present crop. Of course this
millenial condition of things will not
be altogether realized. That there
will be a decided and general advance
In the value of the crop as the result of
work already done by the Agricul
ORDINARY COTTON STAPLE.
braLECTED AND IMPROVED COTTON.
tural Department is certain. But there
are always the factors of ignorance,
indifference and prejuuice to be
reckoned with, and that will hold
down the grand total of the advance.
This is human nature. Otherwise
every one would be raising thorough
bred stock, cats and chickens, which
cost no more to feed and rear than
scrubs, but everyone does not breed
thoroughbreds, whether they be dogs
or cows, and so it is a certainty that
when the average of the cotton crop
Is vastly improved by the use of
better seed there will be a large num
ber of planters who are sticking to the
old methods and complaining because
they find it hard to make a living. -
SEVERAL NEW STRAINS.
It is a fact, however, that the De
partment of Agriculturehas, by several
years of persistent work, bred from the
old varieties of cotton raised in the
south severalDew strains of cotton that,
while having all the desirable qualities
of the old types, produce a staple that
is almost a half longer. It is just one
branch of the general industry of plant
breeding, and the result, as shown by
the cotton itself combed out in fleecy
whiteness on a black card, is a striking
object lesson in the possibilities of
The Department has been at the
work for some years, and in the course
of Its experiments has handled thou
sands of samples and hundreds of
thousands of individual plants in mak
ing the selections that are now con
sidered good enough to be sent out as
new fixed types. The story of this
improvement is a long one, inter
spersed with many 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
grown on the uplands means. Cotton
is our principal export crop. It is the
second most valuable crop grown in
the United States, corn coming first.
It is the principal crop of ten states,
and in large areas of these states it is
almost the only crop grown. The
United States furnishes five-sixths of
the cotton crop of the whole world.
and while there are great areas, espe
cially in Africa, that are adaptable to
cotton, there is no prospect that the
United States will be overtaken as a
producer for many years to come.
The world's consumption of cotton and
the consequent demand are increasing
steadily, so that there is little prospect
of over-production. All these things
are in our favor. Then comes the
question of improving this great crop.
Outsiders do not realize that an
eighth of an inch on the 'ungth of the
fiber in a cotton boll means a cent a
pound -additional on the value of the
crop. Now by careful b:n ding and
selection the Department of Agricul
ture has produced cotton that runs
from three-quarters of an inch to -in
inch and a quarter longer than the
parent plants from which .t was pro
duced. This is not a fr'a A rowth,
either. It is an improvere . 'ht has
developed into a fixed tyn .1d is no
atient Experiments by
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 the new seed to the farmers.
And if the farmers will take a little
trouble and spend pr:-tically no
money at all, they will be ab.e to keel)
up the improved strains so that in a
few years the Amerie-in cotton crop
will have been doubled in value with
out necessarily expanding by a single
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
records of the individual plants are
known, the shape and opening quali
ties of the boll, the date of maturing,
the length and firmness of the cotton
fiber and the degree to which the
parent plant may lie depended upon to
transmit its desirable qualities to its
progeny. The work has been done in
the open field and not in the care
fully tended plots of the 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 the 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
of the staple and other desirable quali
ties in the new cotton have increased,
till the department now feels it has a
new and fixed type that can be de
pended on to perpetuate its desirable
One thing that has been carefully
observed is to keep growing the new
types on the ground where they will
be cultivated commercially. There
are several new strains adapted to
slightly different conditions of soil
and climate. It has been found in
the case of wheat, for example, that
a strain may be improved in one lo
cality, and that by moving it to new
surroundings it shows little, if- any,
improvement over the local type. This
error has been avoided with the new
A COTTON PLANT IMP)
cotton, and the department not only
knows the seed that will give best
results, but the condition of soil and
climate that are best suited to the re
quirements of each strain.
IF FARMERS WILL HlELP.
The farmers at large can help great
ly in keeping up the work that has
been given a practical start by the de
partment. There are simple methods
of seed selection that will insure a
steady improvement in each successive
crop, and that will prevent the crops
from deteriorating. The selection of
seed takes a little care and intelli
gence, but it is not deeply abstruse
work, and the department has reduced
it to simple directions that are easy
for any planter to foll->w.
The "cotton belt," so called, in the
United States is clearly defined. Cot
ton is planted over the whole of it so
that there is no large addition of range
to the plant likely. It is true that the
acreage within the belt could 'possibly
be doubled, but that is not the thing
the department is after. Good cotton
land now yields 400 to S00 pounds to
the acre. What athe department
would 1 ke is to see this yield doubled
in value anid in quantit:--The founda
ion forthis increase istoWr firmly laid,
and 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
the manufacturers of separators
brought out hand machines with the
definite purposes of making them pop
ular and selling them in large num
bers, says the Farmer'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 s 'me 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
DISK PLOW DRAWN I
modeled because of these handy little
It is hard to find a place to begin to
enumerate their advantages. In the
Item of traveling to the creamery
there is a great saving. Where the
dairy owner has one of these ma
chines, he need not go to the cream
ery more than three times a week in
the warm weather and twice in a
week during the colder months.
When cream only instead of the
whole milk is delivered to the cream
ery, the item of hauling. is reduced to
Its lowest limits. Say ten cans of milk
a day is the product of a given dairy.
Where a hand separator is used, haul
tOVED BY SELECTION
ing is reduced -from taking the ten
cans to the creamery every day to
taking two cans of cream every other
day, or three cans twice a week.
The hand separator allows the
dairyman to feed the skim milk to
calves or pigs within a few minutes
of the time it is drawn from the udder
and before the natural animal heat
leaves it. This saves warming the
milk and allows its use when it is per
fectly sweet and fresh.
The hand separator saves hauling
skim milk from the creamery to the
farm, and it also saves the dairyman
from the risk of getting milk from dis
eased cows to feed to his young stock.
This Is not a great risk, to be -sure,
but it is worth considering. Tuber
culous cows are frequently found in
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
The saving in work is a large item.
Instead of ten cans to care for ana
keep clean and free from germs, there
are oply two. This 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 and again before it wears out,
on the various items of economy men
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 transported as fat
as 200 miles to the central creamery,
and here it Is made into butter at
much less cost than would be possible
in the local creamery with a limited
field in which to operate. This allows
the creamery to pay a better price for
Ibutter fat and gives the dairyman
more money from his cows.
The man who keeps as few as five
Icows will find it to his advantage to
Ibuy a hand separator, especially if he
makes butter on the farm, for in such
greater than where a creamery takes
UNITED STATES RECLAMA rIQNe
Plowing by Co-Operative Triiction
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 f'irrow.
Thousands of new settlers will be lo
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principal work will be clearing, level
ing, and plowing, to prepare thi land
to receive the water.
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is the only vegetation. In other places
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empire has attracted the attention of
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who would contract to do the work.
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and cultivating. He is building a plow
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HOW TO HOLD A POSITI:)N.
Courtesy,.Promnptness, Loyal-:y and
Hard Work Are Keys to Suc.:ess in
By H. J. HAPGOOD,
President of Hapgoods.
How to hold a position? Do just as
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o interest in the business; curse the
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ing the careers of men who hav e suc
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ly different, there are certain leatures
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them. These I believe to be the es
sentials for business success-prompt
ness, courtesy, loyalty, hard work.
Promptness Is the key note in this
age of hustle. Opportunity wits for
nobody, and the man who is always a
little behind time is playing a. losing
game. "Always there with the goods"
is one of the highest tributes t hat can
be paid a modern busines:s man.
"Having the goods" is the first con
sideration, but this will avail little if
you are not always there wit~h them
In this connection a good :story Is
told of Philip D. Armour and a young
man who had just begun work for
him. When on the first mortring the
young man reached the offiie at 9
o'clock, he found his emplcyer al
ready there at work. The next morn
ing at 8:30 and the following morning
at 8 o'clock it was the same. At last,
determined for once to be there first,
the new clerk was there at 7 o'clock.
When he walked into the ofice Mr.
Armour looked up from his d:esk and
grimly inquired: "Young man. where
do you spend your forenoons?2"
Business hours are not usually as
long as Mr. Armour made_ th:im, but
whatever they, are they are rigidly ob
served. Five 'or ten minutes in the
morning, trivial as it may be :tself, is
a pretty sure indication of the degree
of promptness you will show in more
"I know of no investment nore cer
tain to pay large dividends than
courtesy," said a successful business
man the other day, and he sp~oke the
truth. In the nerve-racking, endless
rush of affairs, there is nothing which
leaves a stronger impression than a
pleasant word or a kind act, especially
if it be something most men over
look. Business courtesy is Ikrgely a
matter of habit and is one of the
habits we can afford to cultivate.
In the army and navy loyalty is an
essential for success and it is no less
so in the business world. Ent husiasmi
and loyalty go hand in hand a man
cannot he really interested in his work
unless he has an emplJloyer t-) whom
soyaL- .-nore are many brighter
men than he in the service, but he
stuck to them through thick and thin
and they appreciate it." The fre
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Associated more or less with all d
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Northern Railroad Company, "there is $
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have not the capacity for hard work n
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Study the lives of great men and fB
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a hundred, their achievements are due s
to the possession of this capacity.
William E. Corey, the president of 8
the United States Steel Corporation, a
attributes his first success to "not be- -
Ing afraid to do $2 worth of work for T
$1." When a laborer he wheeled so n
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