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The Sea Island was a little more vigorous and had a few more bolls. Near the end 

 of the five years through which both were crossed with constantly improved Green 

 Seed, the Sea Island far surpassed the Green Seed, which was puny and hard to 

 fertilize with the same pollen which had acted well on the other. The lint of the 

 original Green Seed averaged about 1 inch in length. It gained about one-eighth of 

 an inch in length in five years of selection, making it about 1& inches when first 

 crossed with Sea Island. The first cross gave it a length of about 11 inches, the lint, 

 furthermore, being much finer than that of the original Green Seed. 



The character of the stalk is still like that of Green Seed, though more compact. 

 The boll is larger, 65 weighing a pound. The lint pulled from the seed by the 

 fingers averages about 2 inches in length, and is very fine. Ginned on a saw gin, it 

 generally averages from If to U inches in length. The Griffin cotton is earlier than 

 the Green Seed. 



Griffin cotton is without question one of the very best long-staple 

 Upland sorts that has ever been produced. It has been grown for two 

 successive years in tests conducted by the Department of Agriculture 

 at Columbia, S. C. , and has given excellent results and attracted con- 

 siderable attention. Its length of staple here averaged about 1| to If 

 inches. Unfortunately the lint is not very uniform in length, and is 

 inclined to be low in strength. In size of boll, ease of packing, and 

 productiveness the variety is very good. A peculiar feature of Griffin 

 cotton is its tendency to produce a few very long fibers. Frequently 

 a group of several dozen fibers will reach a length of 2i or 3 inches. 



The average yield per acre at Mr. Griffin's plantation, on Mississippi 

 bottom land not over 2C> years, old, is about 400 pounds of lint cotton. 

 On fresh land of this sort it yields about 500 pounds of lint cotton per 

 acre. The proportion of lint to seed cotton, Mr. Griffin states, is 

 about 28 per cent. Professor Tracy, at the Mississippi Experiment 

 Station, gave the per cent as 28 to 29. Professor Duggar at the Ala- 

 bama Experiment Station obtained 29.2 per cent from the crop grown 

 at Auburn, Ala. The crop produced at Columbia, S. C, the past 

 season gave about 29 per cent. 



As an indication of the market value of Griffin cotton, Mr. Griffin 

 gives results of sales as follows: When short staple was selling at 5 

 cents per pound Griffin sold at 8| cents. Last year (1901) it sold for 

 12 cents, against 8 cents for short staple of the same grade. In 1900, 

 when short staple cotton was quoted at between 8 and 9 cents, Griffin 

 sold for 15 cents. A part of the crop of the present year (1902), from 

 which the seed distributed was taken, sold for 14 cents, the average 

 price for short staple of the same grade being 8 cents. 



Mr. Griffin states that his crop is regularly ginned on a saw gin. 

 In the crop this year the first 7 bales averaged li inches in length and 

 the last 7 bales It inches. 



Plant vigorous and prolific, with main central stem and several large spreading 

 limbs below; foliage pale green. Bolls medium large, ovate, blunt-pointed, 4 to 5 

 locked, opening well. Seeds of medium size, weighing about 0.12 to 0.13 gram, 

 gray tufted, 7 to 10 per lock. Lint white, line, and silky, rather variable in length, 

 rano'W from li to 2 inches. Per cent of lint about 28 to 29. Season medium. 



