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Cotton— 'So favorably have the varieties bred up at Auburn 

 jjioved theii- worth in farmers' hands that where they arc 

 being tested by farmers with reference to their local adaptation 

 the seed have been in great demand in the immediate neighbor- 

 hood. This has been especially true of certain strains of Cook 

 cotton, several of which have shown notable superiority to 

 standard vaiicties in yield of lint per acre, and in percentage 

 of lint. 



As an example of the estimate placed on some of these bred- 

 up strains b>' farmers is a statement from a farmer in Dallas 

 Count\, who after producing the past year on 5 acres 4860 

 pounds of seed cotton from one of these bred-up strains of 

 ('ook cotton seed, reported that his crop made an out-turn of 

 40. <S per cent of lint and yielded 25 per cent more lint per acre 

 than the remainder of his crop planted in an ordinary variety. 



Another strain of (]ook evolved here in this process of plant 

 breeding has developed the valuable quality of wilt resistance, 

 together with higli productiveness. 



Oats — A cross or liybrid made at Auburn between two stand- 

 ard varieties of oats has thus far shown great promise in 

 withstanding better than its Red Rust proof parent the severe 

 freezes of the last two winters. 



In the long continued experiment to determine the effects 

 as regards resistance to winter killing of sowing seed oats 

 of which the ancestors for a number of generations had become 

 accustomed to fall sowing, as compared with tlie planting at 

 the same lime in the fall of seed oats most of whose progenitors 

 had been sown in the spring, we have now reached conclusive 

 proof of the superior liardiness of the fall sown straifi. The 

 practical point of this lies in the fact that it emphasizes the 

 sui)eri()rty for seed purposes of home grown oats of known 

 cultural hi.story as comi)are(l with Texas or Oklahoma oats 

 descended from a strain sown there after Christmas 



Sou Beans — The results of experiments made through a 

 number of >ears with soy beans have recently been published, 

 and the two bulletins on this subject constitute a guide for the 

 gr!)wing of this crop so jiromising of development, especially 

 in central and north Alabama, both as a feed for hogs and as 

 one of the i)lans promising to assist in the further development 

 of the oil industry of the state. 



