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Abbeville, Alabama. Its plants are tall and semi-cluster in 

 habit. It is not easy to pick, has medium size bolls, matures 

 late, and has heavy foliage, but it shows considerable wilt- 

 resistance and is productive. The seed are medium size and 

 fuzzy; its fiber is short; it turns out about 35 percent of lint. 

 A strain of Wood bred by Mr. A. G. Bass, Headland, Alabama, 

 produces a more open type plant and seems a little earlier 

 than ordinary Wood. 



COVINGTON-TOOLE WILT-RESISTANT. 



This variety was developed by Mr. W. F. Covington of 

 Headland, Alabama. It is a selection from the Toole variety, 

 which somewhat resembles Peterkin. The plants are small 

 and have light foliage and are productive. The bolls are ovate, 

 early and easily picked. The seed are small and very fuzzy. 

 The average percentage of lint in seven tests was 39.1; its 

 liber is short; it shows decided resistance to wilt. This variety 

 is being recommended by the originator for boll weevil con- 

 ditions. 



TRI-COOK. 



In tile fail of 19 lU, Mr. M. R. Hall ol' James, Alabama, mixed 

 a small lot of improved Cook and pure Triumph seed cotton 

 and ginned them together. From this mixture he selected the 

 basis of his Tri-Cook variety, which still shows that after 

 five years of selection the type of plant is not yet uniform. 



Most plants resemble Cook in type, shape, size of boll, and 

 percentage of lint. The seed are uniform in size, somewhat 

 longer than ordinary Cook. The percentage of lint in a three- 

 year test averages 41. 



Tri-Cook ranked well in resistance to root-knot and wilt, as 

 is seen in the table of comparative losses. It ranked second 

 in the average money value of seed and lint per acre in the 

 four years tested. 



COOK 307-6. 



This variety originated at the Alabama Experiment Station. 

 In 1909 three plants that had withstood the wilt were found 

 in the breeding block of the Cook-row-test. They were har- 

 vested separately and the seed of each plant was planted on 

 a separate row the next year on badly infested land at 

 Loachapoka. The progeny of one plant showed considerable 

 immunity to wilt, and from .his one plant originated the 

 strain of Cook 307-6. 



Cook 307-6 resembles the ordinary Cook variety. The plants 

 when grown on fertile land, are inclined to develop a number 

 of vegetative or "wood" limbs. Its bolls are easily picked and 

 about 70 make a pound of seed cotton. They show some 

 storm resistance and seem not so susceptible to boll-rot as the 

 ordinary Cook. Its seed are small and fuzzy; the percentage 

 of lint averages 39.5. 



The resistance of Cook 307-6 to wilt and nematode injury 

 is strong. Whether it is early enough for boll weevil condi- 

 tions remains to be proved. 



DIXIE. 



Dixie was developed by the United States Department of 



