A New and Prolific Variety of Cotton
Creator
Carver, George Washington
Date
1915
Subject
cotton
crop development
Relation
Tuskegee Institute Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin
Number 26
Excerpt
Sixteen years ago the Experiment Station undertook the production of a type of cotton that would possess the following characteristics:
1. A longer and finer staple.
2. A more prolific variety.
3. A disease resistant variety.
4. A cotton that produces well on light, sandy soils.
5. An early maturing variety that would escape more or less the ravages of the boll weevil.
In all the above matters a marked degree of success has been obtained.
TUSKEGEE EXPERIMENT STATION
This cotton has the following well-known types carefully bred into it: Sea Island, from whence it gets its long, silken fiber; Russell’s Big Boll, from whence it gets its large bolls, and its adaptability to upland conditions of soil and climate; Jackson’s Wilt Resisting, from whence it gets its power to resist to a remarkable degree the troublesome diseases known as wilt, black root, etc.; Simpkin’s prolific, from whence it gets its great fruiting habit.
1. A longer and finer staple.
2. A more prolific variety.
3. A disease resistant variety.
4. A cotton that produces well on light, sandy soils.
5. An early maturing variety that would escape more or less the ravages of the boll weevil.
In all the above matters a marked degree of success has been obtained.
TUSKEGEE EXPERIMENT STATION
This cotton has the following well-known types carefully bred into it: Sea Island, from whence it gets its long, silken fiber; Russell’s Big Boll, from whence it gets its large bolls, and its adaptability to upland conditions of soil and climate; Jackson’s Wilt Resisting, from whence it gets its power to resist to a remarkable degree the troublesome diseases known as wilt, black root, etc.; Simpkin’s prolific, from whence it gets its great fruiting habit.
Title
A New and Prolific Variety of Cotton
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