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SAMPLES OF OUT Mr. A. W. Brabham, of Olar and the New York Cottc I Yon Can Raise Cot r r ^ The article below by Mr. A. \ Brabham, of Olar, was recent fi printed in "Realty," a magazine pu lished in Newark, N. J. Th? pu lishers of "Realty" precede :vir. era ham's article with this comment: A W. Brabham, a South Carolir planter of intelligence and imagini tion, has astonished the scientif world by growing colored cotton fro: a white plant. He has sent to tt New York cotton exchange samph of a dark greenish gray, a ligt green, a tan and a light tan. Thes samples have caused a sensatioi There is no reason why other plantei of Sea Island cotton cannot emulat Mr. Brabham. The commercial poi sibilities of natural colored cotto are enormous, which cotton good manufacturers will be quick to grasi no matter the price of raw materia Mr. Brabham's discovery will greal ly enhance the value of land in th Sea Island cotton belt, f p% / Before treating the subject of pre ducinff cotton in natural colors, :V paragraph on the changes in cotto: production is in order. Short or uf land cotton more than once since th Civil War has gone down to zero? pT-'? cents the pound in the local mar kets?on the other hand cotton, pre duced off the coast of South Carolina pf parts of Georgia and Florida, know] p; as Sea Island, was commanding a fc'- much as 40 cents per pound at th time that ordinary cotton was sell ing for 4 cents. few thinking cotton planters gfe . myself included, conceived the ide; f - of crossing the upland varieties wit) fl:-./. the Sea Island forts, hoping to pro ^ ~ duce an intermediate grade. W were laughed at. The consensus o p|' opinion was that we were on a "fool' : ' errand," or were playing the role o Jason with his Argosy in search o the golden fleece. The desired cot rp ton was produced, the mills took it and last year the South produce< 880,000 bales of upland long stapl' \ cotton, commanding a premium o from 2 to 10 cents per pound. Some years ago, in making crosse . between upland, Sea Island an< Egyptian cotton, lint of a differen s color was found! Here was a puzzh jpf. . in plant pathology. We have alwayi 1 ' Ubo hocrotc hilt il ucaxu luai line weowu this case it was far different. Ex periments were begun, but, of course Y* it took a year to get results, but th< same color of lint produced itself, al though the parents were both plant! 0^ bearing white cotton two years be fore. pk;- It was plain to me that this whit< cotton in some time past had com ||g*" pletely assimilated some differen colored cotton, and by recrossing it this lost colored cotton was at leas restored in part. Why reproduce( by crossing is inexplicable. Perhapi pfe the learned may explain it, but must admit that I cannot, unless ii If' ;.', this way. Produce First Color, To produce a first color, it i: necessary to have one parent plan of the Egyptian strain. Now, when it was discovered tha cotton could be produced in the Nil< Delta, cotton seed from every part o V. tbe world was poured into Egypt an< planted indiscriminately, and no cot ton comes from Egypt as white a the cotton produced in the South, th? Egyptian being from a light crean to a brown. To show that all sorts of cottoi were planted there, the Coptic plant er is now having trouble with Hind cotton appearing here and there, am is a menace to his fine staple, for i - is known among all cotton expert that India produces the shortest am v coarsest cotton known, while on th other hand the Egyptian stands nex to the fine Sea Island cotton in lengt . and fineness of fibre. The Copti planter, also the expert breeders c Europe, are at a loss to know froi whence comes this Hindi cotton yea after year, while strenuous effort are being made every year to e? > terminate it, going so far as to plar % seed for seeding purposes under fin wire gauze, so as to keep out all ii sects, but even under this protectio tho flfinrli MAHnri onnnnrt. *T>U ~ kuu AAAuuA appeal 9. X HO I Cc son is simple; the Hindi cotton hs become-fixed in the "blood," th "life," of the Egyptian cotton, an the best plan for the Coptic plante to pursue is to get the pure seed froi Peru, for there in the land of tfc Incas will be found this brown co ton in its pristine purity. Plant th cotton in the Delta, and no Him cotton will appear. From many experiments made i \ rK \ COLORED ONjlN DISPLAY , Astonishes the Scientific World >n Exchange by Proving that ton of Different Colors V. the last seven years, I am sure that ; ly j black cotton once existed, but has b- been completely swallowed up in the b- white or brown cottons. It will be b- restored sooner or later; in fact, I : am almost sure of restoring it, but 1 La the plant breeder is sure of nothing el- till he gets it. ' 10 White Master Color. 111 Every close observer of the laws ie of biology and pathology observe that i *s white is the master color, if color it 1<; be. Put white blood into black anise mals and watch results. Cross white 1 cereals with cereals of any color, and ' *s soon the whole wrill be white. Grow -e plants having white seeds or fibres ( 3- with other colors and the same still n applies. That is why white cotton | is more widely known and grown ! than other sorts. In the beginning there were at : t- least seven primal pairs of all ani- ^ e mals made, and not less than seven varieties of all plants made. Of the g animals the greatest variations in I >- colors occur in man, simply because | a some races of men have ever been a migratory or nomadic. Take the I ?- races of men who have lived isolated, | e and there is no great variation in 4 their color. Then take a roving race, I - as the Aryan, for instance, and the I l- shades are very marked from an al- " L. mnof xt. Vi i f/\ f n n Vtt?atttxi i ^ 7 muoi ? line iu a uiuvvu. a I am aware that this may offend I s some of the white race, especially in I e the South, where I live, but it is true | - regardless of the offense. A striking k example is seen in that portion of 1 Europe, also Asia, bordering on the | a Mediterranean. Across that sea is J ti Africa, with its black races; another I - way is the Malay Peninsula, with its 8 e brown people, and still in another 9 f direction is China, with its yellow k s people. The blood of all. these peo- 1 f pie, to some extent, flows in the veins a f of some of the branches of the Aryan l| - race, simply because they have al- jj ways been a roving or nomadic peo- | i pie. 1 e To prove that this law of nature 1 f applies to plants as well as to ani- " mals, take the cotton of Peru. There s the red and brown have never been 1 exposed to the influences of white t cotton, and to this day they grow in 2 their pristine purity. The same may s be said of the colored cottons of i Asia. Where not grown in close - proximity with white cotton they re, tain their original color. 3 Coming down now to the growng - of colored cotton, the breeder should 3 procure such primal sorts as have - survived the ravages of time. They , will cross readily, but the white has 3 the power to simply overcome each - and every color. It is possible to t breed back these colors from the , white, but it takes time and patience, t ? 1 Note?Under the date of Sept. 11 3 Mr. Brabham sent the Editor of I "Realty" three samples of long fibre i cotton, one pure white, one a cinnamon shade and the third a grayish green. In his letter Mr. Brabham asks that the following postscript be t added to his first communication, which is printed above. Colored Cotton Samples. P. S.?Since sending you the above f article I have gathered from my exj perimental plots the samples of cotton I am enclosing you. The bright uiuwii is a native ui oiain piaiiieu on my farm this year, and is now opening. The dark color is a hybrid of my own breeding, and seven years ago it was as white as the white sample sent you in this mail. The ques. tion presents itself that should the jj offspring of this dark shade grow t darker year by year, which it has ' done for six years, in the next seven ^ years it will be black or even ebony. This dark sample settles beyond t all doubt that it is a biological fact, h or pathological fact, that by a back breeding (I have no word at my command to express my meaning more forcibly) that a lost color may be restored, although no trace of this ' color may be visible. It shows clear' ly with what wonderful tenacity nature hands down from sire to son, from mother to daughter, that thing ' we call "blood." To my way of thinking and reasoning, nothing is lrtof Jn nofurn tia nlonfc" on/1 ani'malc ^ iuoi in uaiui U) iiv piauvo uuu Lg so long as the species exist. If in man can be located the te ^ "blood" of the ancient Egyptians, Asir syrians, Babylonians, Phoenicians, or ^ any of those primal people, true type*' can be restored in ten generations. If ie man had evolved a la Darwin, to this . day specimens of the lower orders j. would have appeared constantly. The laws of nature have never varied an :n (Continued on page 7, column 5) A DNIQUEJECORD V 1% 1 Very Few In Our ^B WM ^^^k V| lilifI K ?l|*ftl| 1/ilfI Home testimony for Doan's Kidney ^B B B B ^B BB ^B ^^^^B B Bff ^BHB |B B Pills, every ^B B B B B BB |H ^B H| B Bf ^B B of merit.i ^B ^B A J ^Bb ^Bb ^B ^B ^Bb ^B^H forms still: ^^B bB Jb W ^?^B stronger evidence. Years ago, a citi- j zen of Bamberg gratefully acknow- j ledged the benefit derived from j Doan s Kidney Pills. The statement - . 1 l l r 1 is now confirmed?the proof more j I have on hand a lot or the convincing. Cases ot this kind are; plentiful in the work of Doan's Kid-1 ney Pills?the record is unique Tiros. H. White, Main St., Bam-j V mh * burg, says " I suffered from weak j ^B^^^ ? M ^B ^B kidneys for several years. 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