ADVANCE FIELD TESTS OF OUR NEW 
WILDS COTTON 
During the spring of 1933, we furnished a few of our 
large acreage customers with a small quantity of our COKER- 
WILDS No. 5 Cotton Seed so that we might get accurate 
information on its performance under field conditions for 
our own benefit and that of our customers in advance of the 
first offering of this New Strain. The following reports should 
be of especial interest to long staple growers in Mississippi, 
Louisiana, Arkansas and the Carolinas. Please note that our 
recommendations for a wider spacing for Wilds Cotton is en¬ 
dorsed by these successful staple growers. 
Wilds No. 5 . . . brought eighteen cents per pound, graded strict mid¬ 
dling, inch and five-sixteenths, medium growth (stalk), extra early, close 
fruited, five lock bolls easily picked. 
W. B. SWAIN, INC., 
January 22, 1934. Hollyknowe, Miss. 
Seven-eights acre of Wilds No. 5 produced 410 pounds of lint, sold 
for twenty cents per pound, full inch and a quarter to five-sixteenths 
staple, earliest long staple cotton that I have ever grown. Will plant a 
big crop of No. 5 this year. 
HOMER E. DEAN, 
January 22, 1934. Tribbett, Miss. 
We planted exactly one acre with the Wilds No. 5 that you so kindly 
sent us last spring. This cotton was ginned a short time ago, the bale 
weighing 622 pounds. Had this cotton examined by three cotton buyers, 
and as might have been expected, no two of them agreed as to length—I 
think most conservative was 1%6" and the high man 1%". Was offered 
18^ but decided to wait for 20tf. I am very much pleased with this experi¬ 
ment and as you know have bought additional seed so as to plant 65 or 
70 acres. 
E. L. ANDERSON, 
January 19, 1934. KING & ANDERSON, 
Dickerson, Miss. 
One measured acre laid off in four-foot rows, planted April 25, two 
stalks to hill, 24 inches apart—side dressed middle of May with 150 pounds 
Nitrate of Soda turned out 695 pounds of lint. Our cotton firm classed 
this bale as strict middling, 1 9/32". We think Wilds No. 5 is the best 
strain of cotton we have ever bought from you. It is earlier than other 
strains, bolls are set close to body of plant and are large and easy to 
pick—which make it an ideal long staple cotton for the Mississippi Delta. 
From our observation and experience, we find that this cotton yields better 
by planting it in four-foot rows and chopping it out to a thinner stand 
than the shorter cottons. 
January 20, 1934. 
McGEE, DEAN & CO., 
Leland, Miss. 
