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c. © HUDSON Iowa Park, Texas, . (Copyright, 1932, by the Home Color Trial Co.) 7HIS year, in the Wichita Valley near Towa Park, Texas, cotton ‘Was planted with seed that redelinted by a patented chem ical gas process was apparently more resistant to root rot than cotton in ad= joining fields on the same kind of land but planted with ordinary seed. ~ In the cotton fields planted with the chemically treated seed there were plants that had died from the root rot, but not until they had matured most of apparently no Ios:a 2 fields planted with delinted seed, as the dead-stalks were as_white with cotton” as the tale: Tithe fields. The patches of dead cotton so noticeable in actions where there is root rot, were absent from the fields planted with this treated seed. _ This process of delinting cotton seed with chemical gas is of recent discov ery, and it is possible to plant these seed with any make of planting machine that form—or pea plates. This facilitates the planting of cotton seed in hile recettgle, spacing the seed with the rows to-a- stand,thus— saving the labor of chopping or thinning the plants. Delinting Destroys Bacteria The chemical gas used in the delint ing process is also disinfectant ‘that destroys the bacteria and molds that cotter red and cotton diseases are responsible for a large percentage of the losses” which occur at the seedling—stage of plant growth Removing the seed borne molds prevents the decay of the seed, which so frequently happens ir: planting. Seasons when the rainfall is excessive. Personal observation in Arkansas and Texas of cotton grown from seed de linted at the Iowa Park delinting plant show that plants grown from these seed are of a_ healthier appearance, more Vigorous growth and of a richer, dark shade of green than plants, grown from ordinary untreated seed. ‘This stronger oath and better color was as notice able in Arkansas, and attracted as much attention from cotton farmers there as the plants from the delirited seed have attracted in this locality lanti Sty_of having to hoe- grass from the raws, to ‘save’the crop, following a pro longed wet spell,in the spring (or early ).Check Planting Advantageous Checkered planting and right angle cultivation is profitable on bottom lands, or other fertileands, as the ex pense of cotton production can be low ered to the extent of several dollars per bale. By check planting the crop it is easily possible to bring the crop from planting to picking without the expen sive hand-being operations that add so much to the cost of cotton production. Attachments for check planting are available for several makes of planting machines of the knife’ or sword opener taking attachment= the seed with Halogen acid.gas in large containers that are made for this pur pose,about 15 minutes, is required to treat a large quantity of seed. After lint is all removed, the seed are then re cleaned and A gaol machines of the shaker type; this re moves all matter and light-weight seed. The inventors of this process say_that their processes of delinting and re cleaning are_so efficient_that they in crease the weight of seed-permeasured bushel as_much as 50 percent. The advantage of this method of de linting as compared with other chemical -delinting processes is that the seed are always dry; that the linters_ or seed ‘Coat is recovered in the form of a fine ly granular cell tone Tabet eel Mane for rayon another articles manufactur ed-from=cellulose: , one process was built at Iowa Park, Texas. This*is_ the first plant to use the pro cess which is the invention of local peo ple, the process and machinery- having gen developed by Mr. S. B. Jackson of
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Colorado Citizen
Columbus, Texas, US
Thu, Feb 11, 1932
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