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Of the Jetliro, several have inquired of me if I knew it. I 

 reply : In the winter of '46-7, Col. H. W. Vick sent me eight 

 small parcels of cotton in the seed, and asked my examination 

 and experiment. They were endorsed thus : 100-seed, Lin- 

 tonia, Diamond, Original Stock, Seed taken at random from a 

 pile, Belle Creole, not a distinct variety, hut inclining to Silk, 

 eight locks of the Small Diamond, very valuable, Sub Ingri. 

 These were planted April 23, 1847, hoed and picked by my- 

 self; no one permitted to touch, except ploughing. From the 

 seventh variety (inclining to Silk), I selected what I deemed 

 best in the lot. I sent a few seed to J. H. Hammond, e"x- 

 Governor of South Carolina, and to J. V. Jones, of Georgia. 

 The latter brought it into notice, and I named it, in compli- 

 ment to him, Jethro. 



The history is comprised in a line. Col. Vick sent me a few 

 seed, not half-a-pint ; I planted and worked the crop. J. V. 

 Jones made it tell. To the latter is due the credit, and so let 

 it rest. 



The Dean cotton was sent me about five years ago, I think, 

 as Santa Maria, by a warm and devoted friend to agricultural 

 improvement, C. B. Stewart, of Texas, from whom I have re- 

 ceived many kind, similar favors ; the production was so mea- 

 gre that I discontinued the culture. After it had attracted 

 attention, by fifteen and sixteen cent, price, he again sent me 

 some, and Milton Cabeen, a personal acquaintance and friend, 

 procured me a few seed from Mr. Dean himself. The yield 

 is not one-half of my Banana, but the staple is excellent. 

 Having been so unfortunate as to make all my crop ordinary 

 to low middling, and getting some seven to eight cents, I con- 

 clude to make a better article, and now plant all my Dean 

 seed. Silk and Banana yields about the same pure gin stand 

 say thirty-one per cent. ginning out 500 to 1000 Ibs. These 

 yield more lint than any other variety I have tried, 



