SEED AND PLANT DISTRIBUTION. 4 ( .» 



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First, Second, and Eleventh districts: Seabrook and Rivers. 



Fourth, Sixth, Seventh, and Ninth districts: Excelsior and Allen. 



Third and Fifth districts: Parker and Jones. 



Eighth and Tenth districts: Parker and Griffin. 

 Loi [siana: 



Third and Fourth districts: Excelsior and Allen. 



Fifth and sixth districts: Parker and Griffin. 

 M [ssissippi: 



Second and sixth districts: Jones and < rriffin. 



First, Third, Fifth, and Seventh districts: Parker and All. n. 



F( 'urth districl : Excelsior and Griffin. 

 North < ' iroli \.\ : 



First, Third, Fourth, and Eighth districts: Parker and Excelsior. 



Second, Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh districts: Excelsior and Jones. 

 Soi in ( ' irolina: 



Firsl district: Parker and Griffin. 



Third. Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth districts: Excelsior and Griffin. 



Second and Seventh districts: Parker and Allen. 

 Tennessee: 



Third and Fourth district-: Parker and Excelsior. 



Fifth and Eighth districts: . I ones and Griffin. 



Sixth, Seventh. Ninth, and Tenth districts: Parker and Griffin. 

 Texas: 



First. Second, and Thirteenth districts: Excelsior and King. 



Third, Fourth, Eighth, and Tenth districts: Parker and King. 



Fifth and Sixtli districts: King and Allen. 



Seventh and Ninth district-: King and Griffin. 



Eleventh and Twelfth districts: Jones and King. 

 Oklahoma: Excelsior and Allen. 



description of varieties distributed. 



Short-Staple Upland Varieties. 



jones improved. 



This is a big-boll Upland cotton (PI. I), said to have been introduced 

 into America from Algiers by Wyehe brothers about the 3'ear 1S:>7. 

 The history of the introduction, as given by Mr. J. F. Jones, who has 

 been instrumental in bringing the variety into prominence, is as follows: 



About 1853 two brothers of a family by the name of Wycbe emigrated from Ger- 

 many, one coming to the United States and the other going to Algiers, on the 

 Mediterranean coast, to work for a French colony engaged there in growing cotton. 

 About 1857 the Algerian brother sent a small package of cotton seed to his brother 

 in the United States. Before the brother in this country had time to fully test the 

 merit of the variety he died. The war between the States came on shortly after- 

 wards, when neglect and lack of conveniences resulted in almost destroying any trace 

 of the variety. In fox hunting over the Wyche plantation I discovered places here 

 and there where there was a wonderful growth of this particular variety. By per- 

 mission I went into the fields and selected some of the seed, having to assist me a 

 Methodist minister by the name of Warren Beggarly, who later sold some of the seed 

 of the variety to the Government. Beggarly died shortly afterwards and left the 



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