G. L. KOTTUn 



250 



J\/u>ftJ)er 

 PLcotts. 



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4-0 



Dharufur J. 

 Fig. 16. 



the latter cause — a decrease in the weight of the seeds — for the folloA\Tng table 

 shows that the seeds have, each year, been slightly heavier than those of the 

 ordiuary ^'wm^Jto crop grown on the same farm : — '" — ""■ 



Perhaps the chief iiiterest in the present seledicn, "1 L^vivar Ko. 1," 

 is in its staple, for it is the final result of selection originally started in Ivfifia 

 cotton in 1904, sperially with the view of improving the sta-ple. Fcr the 

 first six years all plants canying good staple were taken colkctively, but in 



