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SIMPKINS COTTON
and Square Deal Corn
The Simpkins, the most prolific, earli
est and most successful cotton undei
weevil conditions. I bought my seed
directly from Simpkins. My 1910 crop
of cotton and corn a bumper and a
money-maker. All seed selected and
guaranteed pure and true to name. Cor
respondence invited.
Simpkins Cotton, $50 per ton; $1 per
bn. Corn, $2 per bushel.
R. K. BONEY, - • Duckport, La.
RUST PROOF SEED OATS
1.500 bushels for sale at 85c a bushel.
Excellent quality.
O. O. McGEHEE, Woodville, Miss.
Lespedeza Seed
For prices, address
LeuU West, - St FraneisvUle, La.
Big A Plenty Farm
H&rriston, Mias.
Mammoth Late Soy Bean Seed. 12.00 bu., reclean
ed R R. P. Seed Oats, bright and sound. 80c bu.
Buy from grower and avoid chance of Infesting
your land with cheat and Johnson Grass.
D. H. CHAMBERLAIN. - - Manager.
GENUINE APPLER OATS FOR SALE
80 cents per bushel, f. o. b. Brandon,
Mississippi. : : c : : s : : : :
S. W. Tinnin, - - - Fannin, Miss.
McGEHEE’S
Surecrop Oats
Thirty successive crops in Louisiana with
out a failure. All seed carefully selected.
Prices, by bushel or carload, on application.
Plant Early.
McGEHEE’S
Reliable Lespedeza Seed
Beady for delivery in November.
The Best Boll-weevil Antidotes
J. B. McGehee, Laurel Hill, La.
PAQ OAT T Appier Oats. Clove
r UI\ j/ALL land Big Boll CoU
ton Seed, Marlboro
Com, Cook’s Improved Cotton Seed.
Cotton Seed and Oats $1 per bu.. Corn (2.
We grow our seed and have our gin to keep them
pure. Order now. as we never have enough to
last through the season
WRITE US FOR DESCRIPTION. ETC.
VINEYARD FARM, Griffin, Ga.
Buy from Grower
Red Rust-Proof Seed Oats
Leapedeza Seed and Hay, Improved Upland Rice.
All seed carefully recleaned.
H. M. STEWART. Laurel Hill. La.
SEEDS
We have a full stock of the following
seeds, and will be glad to quote prices
on application : Alfalfa Seed, Crimson
Clover Seed, Alsyke Clover Seed, Dwarf
Essex Rape, Hairy Vetch, Barley, Rye,
Fulcaster Wheat, Red May Wheat, Red
Rust Proof Oats and Winter Turf Oats.
Addreaa
Wilson Feed Store, Greenwood, Miss.
Mississippi Raised Seed Oats For Sale
Guaranteed to be mat-proof. Yield
from GO to 6u bu per acre. Price 86c
bu„ f. o. b. Centerville. Miasisaippi.
WALLACE JACKSON, - Berwick. Miaa.
1,000 BUSHELS GENUINE RED RUST
PROOF OATS FOR SALE
Guaranteed not to rust or winter kill if pat In
with drill or open furrow method Order early
before supply is exhausted. Price 80 cents per
bushel f. o. b. Wilsonville. Ala.
B. H. Smothers, . Wilsonville, Ala.
pjandn* cotton Seed Catalog
Just out. Write for it. Largest
ever published. For Boll weevil lands.
We carry largest assortment Early
Seeds in the South—50 types listed.
WILLET SEED CO., Augusta, Ga.
WRITE FOR OVB
Farmer’s Weekly Price Current.
Merchant Weekly Price Current
Cotton Planting Seed Catalogue.
Wlllat Sead Company, Augusta, 6a.
mu pernaps mure juuiciuusiy, as »uw
depletion slow'ly made it necessary.
We would not have given up cotton
as our one great money crop so
long as it could have been avoided,
nor has any other section ever done
such a thing. If Iowa and Illinois cli
matic conditions made cotton growing
practicable, these States would be as
great slaves to cotton as we have
ever been. It is a much better gen
eral farm crop than either wheat or
corn, and these have in turn been
the hard slave masters of Northern
farmers.
What lesson are we to learn from
these facts? We think the lesson is
that cotton, corn and wheat are val
uable farm crops and should be
grown wherever and whenever soil,
climatic and other conditions permit.
From this we draw the further con
clusion that our aim should not be
to grow less cotton, but to grow it
on less acreage. Those sections af
fected by the boll weevil can not do
this, for it haB been the universal
experience that during the first twc
to four years after the arrival of the
weevils, four out of five farmers
produce very much less cotton pei
acre than they are now growing, the
average of which is already too low
for a profit.
Changes could be gradually made
in preparation for the weevils and
cotton production put on its propei
basis in our cropping system, bul
that never has and probably nevei
will be done. The result is that or
the appearance of the boll weevils
and during the first few years ol
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$500 More a Year Farming: How to Get It
BY GROWING THE RIGHT CROPS.
Stick to the Staple Crops Until You Learn How to Grow Others
—How to Adopt Yourself to Boll-Weevil Conditions.
By Tut Butler.
FOR MANY YEARS the politi
cians and many others who ad
vise the farmers have charged
cotton growing with all the ills and
misfortunes of the Southern farmer.
The one-crop system of the South
has been accused of depleting our
soils and keeping our farmers poor.
It is generally assumed that the
farmers of other sections do not rob
their soils or pin their faith to a
single money crop as we have done
in the South, but a close examina
tion of the cold facts shows that the
farmers of the South have not acted
materially different from the farm
ers of other sections of this country
under similar conditions.
American farmers are notoriously
the worst of soil robbers. Wherever
a * I 1 • * _fl..
tney aave iuuuu uuu duuo
they have cropped them in one or
more exhaustive crops until their
failure to produce these crops profit
ably has compelled other lines of
farming.
In one respect the Southern farm
er has been more fortunate. He
has had a better money crop which
depleted the soils less and had it not
been for climatic conditions, which
deplete the soil much more rapidly
than does cotton growing, we would
have heard less of the evils of the
one-crop system. Eventually we
should have been compelled to grow
other crops in order to obtain the
necessary crop rotation required to
prevent still further soil depletion;
but this has come into our cropping
problems a new difficulty, which de
mands a sudden change or the aboli
tion of the one crop, cotton, as the
sole dependence of the farmer.
What the Boll Weevil Has Done.
The coming of the boll weevil has
suddenly forced diversification which
would have come more gradually
_J -A. T__ 4.. J I A A AAil
their attacks that is a great rush to
other crops. Every crop that prom
ises the slightest prospect of afford
ing relief is likely to be tried, wisely
or unwisely, many of those who ad
vise “diversificatioji” of crops seem
to think that this easily given ad
vice is simple and easily followed,
and that it will prove the longed
for panacea for our agricultural dif
ficulties.
Right and Wrong Methods of Diver
sification.
Diversification is not necessarily
beneficial or desirable and for the
cotton farmer is very difficult to put
into operation. To grow those crops
consumed on the farm is usually
wise, but beyond this, diversification
must be limited to the capacity or
intelligence of the farmer and the
conditions surrounding marketing.
It is true that practically all crops
needed by the people of the South,
except cotton, are bought by the
South and, therefore, meet with
ready sale, but the putting of many
of these on the market in proper
condition, requires considerable
knowledge, experience and care, and
unless properly marketed, they will
not command a living price to the
nrni-l n om*
During the past year wheat has
received much attention, but it is
doubtful if our soil and climate are
sufficiently well adapted to the grow
ing of wheat to justify the expense
of securing the necessary machinery
to economically harvest, thresh and
mill the amount that will bo grown.
Wheat growing may not be a new
crop in the South, but it is new to
many of the farmers of to-day and
is a new crop under modern condi
tions of harvesting and milling.
Tobacco and rice have also been
suggested for different sections as
substitutes for cotton, but these are
new crops with which our people
are unfamiliar and they are expen
sive and difficult to handle.
Of all the new crops suggested as
a substitute for cotton there is none
which promises better than peanuts,
because it is a Southern crop, adapt
ed to Southern soil and climate and
can he marketed through hogs, if in
no other way, which are always in
demand in the South.
si) new urojis on u ninau ."Kale.
But no new crop should be plant
ed on a large scale, until a few acres
have been grown for a year or two,
and the culture of the crop learned.
It is safe to stick pretty closely to
the well known crops, corn, oats,
hay, sweet potatoes, and such other
crops as there is a ready market for
and those we know how to grow and
for the production of which experi
ence has proved the country is
adapted.
New crops should be sought and
thoroughly tried, but only Bmall
areas should be planted until their
culture has been learned and it has
been demonstrated that they can be
profitably produced. This can be
done before the arrival of the boll
weevil so that when it becomes ne
cessary to largely discontinue the
growing of cotton, which should al
ways be done for two or three years
after the appearance of the weevils
other tried crops, with the culture
of which we are familiar, may be
substituted.
Telephone the Markets
The font: distance lines of the Cumberland
Telephone & Telegraph Company. Incor
porated. connect you with all important
cities and towns in the United Statee.
Save time and money.
CUMBERLAND TELEPHONE & TflEGRAPH COMPANY,
(Incorporated) __
Post Cards Free
■*pnd in* 2c •tamps and I'll lend you 10 beautiful
} riKtmis Cards and tell you about my bif 81 KI’KIHB.
* * MFKFDITH. 214 SiKXaaa Rldf.. D«*
It is of vital importance to plant
the best seed obtainable.
Therefore order
Simpkins’
Prolific Cotton Seed
"Earliest Maturing Cotton Seed in the World"
Place your order NOW with the
originator of this famous seed.
In Carload Lots . . . SI.10 per Be.
Less than Carload Lots SI.15 per Bi.
F. 0. B. Raleigh.
. SIMPKINS COMPANY. Ralcifti. N. C.
Lespedeza For Sale
Pure rccleancd Le*pcd<-za or Japan Clover Seed,
Carpet Grn*t Seed. Leaped.za Hay. Will tend
sample* ai d price*.
Abo Horae and Mule Colta, two and three year*
old. Hurae Colta h* Rex McDonald III. i
Hereford Rail Calve* by registered bull, out of
cows from 3-4 to 16-16 pure. Calves for Spring
delivery. .
EDWARD BUTLER. - - St. Francis villa. La.»
KING COTTON SEED FOR SAI.E
,, J>ur® nnd c*r*f°|ly selected, earliest, moat pro-'
line and mo»t profitable variety for boll wmtII
districts, 11.60 per bushel. Mo*by Prolific Corn,
12 00 per bushel. Address
The Davies Farm, Montgomery, Ala.|
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SEED OATS FOR SALE
EXT»* FINE. VEIT HEAVY, MSOLttTtlT Mil
Appier, $1.00 per bushel; Has
ting’s one hundred bushel Oats,
fine, $1.25 per bushel; Winter %l
Turf or Grazing Oats, $1.00 C
per bushel. Old reliable Geor- i
gia Purple Straw Seed Wheat i
and Bearded Fulcaater Wheat
$1.75 per bushel.
All seed pure—no Johnson
grass or other obnoxious weed
seed in them.
Cleveland Big Ball, Cook’s
Improved, Broadwell and Bank
Account Cotton Seed Boon
ready.
Send all orders to
R. D. TATUM, Fair View Farm
PALMETTO, GA.
Every Cotton Grower,
large or small. rtch or poor,
write to
I W HiwHns, - HtM, t«.
for hietory and descriptive
1 circular of his Kxtra Pro
lific ( oil on. and Price at
Seed It's free, and will be
worth Uundrada at DOL
LARS to rou.
Quick Maturity and mUl
make 7 Area Bale* par
am.
HOW TO BEAT
THE BOLL WEEVIL
Plant our reliable Wheat, Rye, Harley, Tur
Oats. Red Rust Proof Data, Alfalfa, Clover. Red
Top. Vetch. Rape. etc.
Choice Red Rust-proof Oat*. 60c per bushel.
Our price* are right. Our seed* grow. W*
make quick shipment*. We want your buslneee.
Special prices to Farmers' Union*.
TUCKER MOSBY SEED COMPANY,
MEMPHIS. TENNESSEE.
CSKNUINE
Rust-Proof Seed Oats
per bushel; somple by moll '
FERNWOOD LUMBER COMPANY. U
Fernwood. Pike Ca. Mis*. A
Pure Red Rust-Proof Oats f
For Sale.
A. I,. ARGUE, - - Woodville, Miaa. w*
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