PRODUCTIVE—EARLY—WILT RESISTANT 
We have thought about discontinu¬ 
ing Lightning Express cotton, for it 
has some characteristics that we do 
not like. Namely, the turnout is not 
high enough and the bolls are smaller 
than we would like to have them. 
However, many of our good customers 
who have been planting the various 
strains of Lightning Express cotton 
since we first offered it over ten years 
ago, put up such a howl that we are 
again offering Lightning 8. They 
found this cotton to be an excellent 
weevil beater, extra early with bolls 
that harden up quickly and resist 
weevil puncture, and is a uniformly 
heavy yielder. 
Staple is good, hard and uniform— 
averaging 1 !4" to 1% 6 " staple and 
run from 32 to 34% lint under good 
conditions. 
It has good wilt resistance and pro¬ 
duces well on either medium or heavy 
land. 
CHARACTERISTICS 
PLANT—Vigorous, open type, thin foliage. 
SEASON—Very early. 
HULL—Very fibrous, hardens quickly. 
WILT RESISTANCE—Excellent. 
LINT LENGTH—1%" to 1% 6 ". 
LINT PERCENTAGE—32 to 34%. 
STORM RESISTANCE—Good. 
PICKING QUALITY—Excellent. 
BOLLS—Medium, 69 to 75 per pound. 
PRICES: (See Price List Enclosed.) 
EFFECT OF GROWING CONDITIONS ON 
CHARACTER OF COTTON 
The length, percentage of lint and boll size of every variety of cotton will vary 
under varying conditions of soil fertility and rainfall. Our descriptions are based on 
the actual records that our cottons have produced in our tests, and our cottons will 
show the same characteristics elsewhere under the same conditions. If the grower and 
Mother Nature provide better conditions than obtained on our farms during the critical 
period of boll formation, they will produce longer staple. Drought or POOR CON¬ 
DITIONS, however, will result in a shorter staple, reduced yields and smaller bolls— 
no matter what variety is planted. 
We make no guarantee as to the performance of our cottons on wilt land in the 
light of our recent discoveries. (See article on page 15.) 
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