WHICH VARIETY OF
CCHON IS REST?
Do You Know Which Variety Pays
the Best in Arkansas and
Why It Does7
By W. E. Ayres,
Experiment Station University of
Arkansas.
Varieties of cotton belong to two
general classes, short-staple and lopg
staple—“Bfendere” or "Rivers” being
nothing more titan a commercial trade
name used to designate any cotton
grown on rich soil in a humid climate,
and therefore producing superior lint.
All varieties having lint longer than
1 1-18 inches are long-staple varieties:
those having shorter lint belong to
the short-staple class.
In general, the long-staple varieties
are later, have a lower per cent of
lint, and their bolls are more pointed
than the short-staples. However,
some of the recently introduced long
staples are earlier than the average
short-staple cottons and have other
desirable characteristics which are
bringing them into favor.
What Is a Good Variety? The money
value per acre produced by a variety
of cotton is the criterion by which it
is ultimately judged, provided it has
no qualities which are strikingly un
desirable. Such factors as length
and per cent of lint are usually im
portant in determining values, hut the
variety which yields the highest per
cent of lint or the longest lint is often
poor when proflts are considered,
earliness, size #f bolls, ease of picking,
and storm resistance are factors to be
considered in selecting a variety. Un
der boll weevil conditions, toward the
northern limit of the cotton belt, or on
new land, earllness is very important.
What Is an Early Variety/ Since
the advent of the boll weevil it Is
agreed that the variety which will pro
duce the most cotton in an area heav
ily infested with weevils is the earli
est variety. Small boiled, early matur
ing varieties often fail to yield as well
on soils medium low in fertility as
the medium early, large boiled varte- j
ties even under boll weevil condi- j
tions. The greatest difference be- I
tween the earliest and latest varieties j
exists in humid districts on poorly
drained rich bottom land. On such
land such, varieties as Trice, Shine,
King, etc., should be considered if
short-staple varieties are preferred.
Variety Tests in 1916 Interesting.
The Arkansas Experiment Station
tested fifty-five varieties and strains
of cotton at two different points in
the state last year. In addition, 5 to
25 varieties were tested in co-opera
tion with the county agents In severa!
counties. One of the large tests was
conducted at Scotts in co-operation
with Mr. Conoway Scott and the
other at Mena on the old substation.
The test at Scotts was on Arkansas
River bottom land. The season was
favorable and the yields good. The
Mena test was on hill land. The yields
there were very low, due to extreme
ly dry weather shortly after the plants
hegan to set forms.
The average results of the tests at
Scotts and Mena show that twelve of
the fifty-five varieties produced seed
and lint worth (at market prices for
September, October and November)
more than $100 per acre, the average
per acre value of these twelve varie
ties being more than $107.00. The per
acre value of the same varieties at
Scotts averaged more than $170.00.
The poorest twelve varieties averaged
a little less than $76.00 per acre in
the two tests and $116.00 at Scotts.
The high yields were produced at
the same expense as the poor ones
plus the cost of harvesting and mar
keting the excess produced by the
high yielders. This would have
amounted to about $5 per acre for the
average of the two tests and about
$8.00 per acre at Scotts. If the aver
age cost per acre of production and
marketing for the poor yielders was
$25.00 and the cost at Scotts $27.00
per acre the per acre profit was $77.00
for the high yielders and $51.00 for
the low yielding varieties. The per
acre profit at Scotts was $135 and
$89, respectively, for the high and
low yielding varieties. Profits from
high yielding varieties were about 50
per cent greater than from low
yielding varieties. Profits from high
yielding varieties were about 50 per
cent greater than frpm low’ yielders.
Among the high yielders in the av
erage for the two tests were Triumph,
Wannamaker, Big Boll (Cleveland)
Cleveland, Half and Half. Roundnose,
Christopher Big Boll, Toole, and n
strain of Cook bred by the Alabama
Experiment Station, all in the short
staple class; and the following long
staple varieties: Foster, Webber No
S2. Webber No. 49, and Express. Ex
press was the earliest of tfie above
varieties, but had a lower per cent of
lint and shorter lint than any of the
above long-staples. All of the above
short-staples, except Toole, were com
paratively early. Other varieties which
did well at Mena were: Cook’s Im
proved, Rublee, Lone Star, Rowden,
Dodd's Prolific, Dodd's Favorite, King
and Shine. At Scotts, Durango, Co
lumbia, Dixie and Sproull Big Boll
were good yielders.
On land infected with wilt Dixie
j and Covington-Toole are perhaps the
best varieties of which seed can be
j obtained in commercial quantities.
The horse must have fresh air.
HIDE THEIR REAL FAVORITES
Claim Made That Fe- Literary Men
Tell the Truth W r.en Asked a
Leading Question.
Now and again men of letters and
other persons more or less in the pub
lic eye are requested to put them
selves to the question and to write
out a list of their favorite characters
in fiction. Sometimes they are bidden
to stand and deliver the names of
stalwart heroes, and sometimes they
are desired to lisp lovingly a list of
love’s heroines.
And as these men of letters and oth
er persons more or less in the public
eye are human, after all, and therefore
hypocrites, they are likely to go on the
stand with no intention of telling fhe
whole truth, says Scribner’s Magazine.
Their secret delight may be in the
mysterious vengeances of Nick of fhe
Woods; yet this Is what they would
never dare confess, so they get out a
search warrant and they take up a
collection of their thoughts in order
to produce as their first choice Achil
les or Ulysses, Gargantua or Marius
the Epicurean.
They are equally lacking In frank
ness where they volunteer to name a
bevy of heroines. They may make a
bluff of indifference to beauty by put
ting in Jane Eyre; but no one of them
would be bold enough to acknowledge
his sneaking fondness for Becky Sharp,
that most fascinating villainess.
Thackeray tried to make us dislike
Mrs. Jtuwdon Crawley, thereby incur
ing the reproach of Taine—to the ef
fect that her creator did not love
Becky as Balzac loved Mine. Marneffe.
Yet, try as hard as he could, Thack
eray failed to arouse In the average
sensual man any detestntion for the
Impersonator of Clytemnestra at the
Gaunt House theatricals. In fact, if
the average sensual man had his
choice, he would rather take in to din
ner Becky than the blameless Amelia,
beloved by the long-suffering Major
Dobbin.
Floating Gardens of China,
Immune Alike to Drought or
Flood, Often Avert Famine
The first point of interest to the
traveler in China is the boat town of
Canton. The Chookeang, or Pearl riv
er, for a distance of miles, is covered
with boats, which form the residences
of a numerous population. Land is
valuable in China, and it is presumed
that the rent of the river is merely
nominal.
The Chinese not only live on the riv
| ers, but they also use them for gar
dening purposes. In the month of
April a bamboo raft, ten to twelve feet
; long and about half as wide, is pre
j pared.
I The po’
re lashed together, with
•
interstices of an Inch between each.
Over this a layer of straw an inch
thick is spread, and then a coating two
inches thick of adhesive mud, taken
from the bottom of a canal or pond,
which receives the seed.
The raft is moored to the bank In
still water, and requires no further
attention. The straw soon gives away
and the soil also, the roots drawing
support from.the water alone.
In about 20 days the raft becomes
covered with the creeper (ipoinea rep
tans), and its steins and roots are
gathered for cooking. In autumn its
small white petals and yellow
stamens, nestling among the round
leaves, present a very pretty appear
ance.
The chief use, however. Is to raise
vegetables for the owner’s family, and,
with half a dozen of these rafts, a
Chinaman will have enough and to
spare, says an exchange.
In the lower Yang-tse-Klang and the
Hoang-Ho rivers, extensive rice fields
are cultivated in this manner. Upon
rafts constructed as above, weeds and
adherent mud are placed as a flooring,
and when the rice shoots are ready
for transplanting, they are plneed in
the floating soil, which, being adhesive
and held in pince by weed roots, the
plnnts are maintained in position
throughout the season, the rice ripen
ing in from 60 to 70 days.
The rafts are fnstened to the shore
by cables, and these floating fields
have served to avert famine, whether
by drought or flood. When other
fields were submerged and their crops
sodden or rotten, these floated and
flourished, and when a drought pre
vailed, they subsided with the falling
waters, and, while the soil around was
arid, advanced to maturity.
The Exception.
Miles—The Chinese claim to have in
vented nearly everything.
Giles—Well, judging by the way in
which they wear their hair, they didn't
invent football.
Pertinent Query.
“Actions speak louder than words,”
quoted the inorallzer.
“So they say,” rejoined the demoral
izer, “but did you ever try to make
your wife believe It?”
Honors for Potatoes
There never wus a time In all Its
comparatively short history when the
potato had so much hondr thrust upon
it as at present. In many countries,
widely separated, its yield and its
prices are subjects of eager, discussion,
j And yet it Is only since the beginning
of last century that Its value -as a fond
product has been recognized. For
nearly 200 yeurs after Sir Walter
Raleigh introduced it into England the
potato was subjected to a “cold neg
lect” and failed to obtain any serious
recognition of its many virtues.
Art of Papermaking Given
To the World by Captive
Chinese in Eighth Century
In a communication to the National
Geographic society. Issued by the so
ciety as a bulletin, John Oliver Leu
Gorce says:
“How much we deplore the strin
gency in raw material for the paper
market brought about by the European
war, it should not be forgotten that to
the beneficent results of a battle fought
nearly twelve centuries ago can be
traced the introduction of the art of
papermaking to the western world.
China is credited with having nurtured
the genius who first conceived the idea
of a writing material made from
fibrous pulp, and some investigators
profess to have found evidence that
paper existed in the celestial kingdom
at least two centuries before the Chris
tian era. Whether these claims of cen
turies of priority will endure the light
of further research, or whether they
will be discredited just as have been
the same nation’s claim to the inven
tion of the mariner’s compass and gun
powder, the fact is fairly well estab
lished that when the Arabs 'defeated a
raiding party of celestials before the
gates of Samarkand, in the middle of
the eighth century, they captured a
party of Chinamen who were skilled
paper makers. It was from this city of
Russian Turkistan, once the capital of
that most ruthless of Mongol princes.
Tamerlane, that the art vof these cap
tives spread throughout Asia Minor
and northern Africa, into Moorish
Spuin and finally into Italy, where the
first extensive factories were estab
lished in 1270 at Fabriano, still a cen
ter of the paper industry in southern
Europe.
“Up to the closing years of the eight
eenth century all paper was made by
hand, sheet by sheet, hut in the same
year that Napoleon fought the lmttle
of the Pyramids, Louis Robert, a
humble workman in the paper mill of
Didot, at Essones, south of Paris, in
vented a machine for making paper in
an endless web. Tin* invention was de
veloped in England by the two Four
driniers, who lost a fortune in their
pioneer work. Their names, however,
are perpetuated in the papermaking
machines of the present day.
“The first American paper mill was
established by William Rittenhouse In
Roxborough, near Philadelphia, just S3
years after the first permanent Eng
lish settlement in the United States at
Jamestown.”
Hard to Explain.
“You say this is a problem piny?”
“That’s what the program states.
It presents a pretty problem to me.”
“Yes?”
“I’m wondering why anybody ever
put up real money to have it pro
duced.”
RAILROAD TIME TABLE.
St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern
LITTLE ROCK 6 MONROE RY.
South North
7:45 a. m.Huttig.3:59 p. m
9:50 a. m.Monroe 2:07 p. m
local. *
Leaves Arrives
11:25 a. m.. Huttig ... 12:30 p.m.
St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern
FARMERV1LLE A SOUTHERN RY.
North South
5:22 a. m. Huttig 2:32 p. m
7:21 a. m. Farmerville 6:45 p.m
local, f
10:10a.m. Huttig 2:22p.m.
tArrives Monday, Wednesday, and Fri
day from Monroe and goes to Farmer
viile.
*Arrives Tuesday, Thursday and Satur
day from Farmerville and goes to Mon
roe.
LODGE DIRECTORY.
ROWLAND LODGE No. 594 F. & A.
M.meets every second and fourth Satur
day evenings at 7:30 o’clock. Visiting
Masons always welcome.
T. B. Weaver, W. M.
W. P. Reasons. Sec’y.
HOWARD CHAPTER, No. 122. R. A.
M. meets every first and third Thurs
day evening at Masonic hall. Visiting
companions welcome.
J. M Gibson, H. P
C. A. Berry, Secy.
ZEDElvlAH, COUNCIL. U. D.. R. &
S. M. Metts every fourth Wednesday
night of each month. Visiting compan
ions welcome T. B. Weaver. T. I. M.
R. N. Benson, Reco'der.
HUTTIG CHAPTER No' 320. Order of
the Eastern Star, meets every first and
third Friday evening at 7:30 o'clock.
Visiting brothers and sisters welcome.
Mrs. J. A. Brignac. W. M.
Mrs. L. G. Gibson, Sec'y.
HUTTIG LODGE No. 348 I. 0. 0. F.
meets every first and third Tuesday eve
ning. All brethern cordially invited.
H. C Bedford, N. G.
Harlan Sehon, Secy.
HUTTIG REBEKAH LODGE No. 66.
meets every Monac y nightat7:30 o'clock
Visitors are invited.
Mrs. Wilkie Frost, N. G
Mrs. Murray Maroney, Secv.
SWEET BAY CAMP No. 4 1 1 W.O. W.
meets every first and third Saturday eve
nings. Visitors made welcome.
Lester Malone, C. C.
J. C. Bridges, Clerk.
Sweet Bay Circle No. 145, W. C..
meets every second and fourth Thursday
night at 7:30 o'clock. Visitors are cor
dially invited.
Mrs. E. S. Etheridge. Guardain.
Mrs. J. C. Bridges, Clerk.
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