PLANT COTTON SEED IN HILLS AND QUIT CHOPPING
[catalog, instruction & promo booklet for Alabama-made cotton planter machines & fertilizer distributors]
Headland, Alabama: W. F. Covington Planter Co. (1936 - date determined from page 9 where the manufacturer says that his first cotton seed dropper was made 25 years ago in 1911), 16 pages, self covers. Booklet size is approx. 8x10 inches.
Printed in Headland, Henry County, Alabama by The Wiregrass Farmer newspaper plant.
Illustrated with line drawings of various cotton planting patterns or configurations as well as illustrations of several models of the Alabama made planting machine, e.g.:
as well as one illustration of their fertilizing machine or fertilizer broadcaster:
The machines are priced and well described.
Catalog is printed on wood pulp paper which has begun to brown but it is holding up well and the paper does not feel especially fragile when one turns a page. There is a 1" tear in the bottom margin throughout MOST (but not all) of the book:
Otherwise good and sound:
(the fine print ... [sigh] ... but please read :-)
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