92 COTTON 
and has been selected after years of careful tests 
made to develop a variety required for cloth of 
durability and strength. 
RELATIVE PERCENTAGE OF FIBER SHOULD BE 
LARGE 
. An essential quality for every variety of cotton to 
possess is the ability to produce a high quantity of 
lint in proportion to seed. This quality is funda- 
mental, for lint yield is usually the first trait con- 
sidered by any grower. In fact, a particular 
variety is selected, as a rule, because of the claim 
that it is a heavy yielder. 
Careful attention, then, at the time of gathering 
and selecting seed—making constant effort to 
improve by selecting from plants with this tendency 
to increase the yield—will prove one of the most 
satisfactory ways of adapting the variety to your 
environments, and of rendering it reliable as the 
breed for your special purposes. 
