FARM RELIEF COTTON 
MAKES GOOD YIELDS 
AND 1GH TURNOUTS 
Reports as High as 42% 
Lint Received. 
The low rolling hills of Spar¬ 
tanburg County have long had 
a reputation for their ability to 
produce good yields of quality 
cotton. Coker’s Farm Relief 
has added to this reputation by 
its splendid performance in pro¬ 
duction of high yields combined 
with full V/ie" staple and lint 
percentages running above 40%. 
I. W. Gray of Woodruff, S. C., 
southern Spartanburg County, 
is well pleased with his Farm 
Relief Strain 4. He reports: 
“The hundred pounds (Farm 
Relief Strain 4) we got from 
you last spring—we got four 
bales—a yield from 42% lint 
and 1 % 2 " to IViq" staple. 
From Macon County, down in 
the Georgia peach country from 
O. K. David of Marshallville, 
comes: “Your Farm Relief 
Strain 4 cotton seed bought of 
you this spring gave me excel¬ 
lent results and I consider it well 
adapted to this section—the 
yield, fiber and turnout were 
very satisfactory and can heart¬ 
ily recommend it for this sec¬ 
tion.” 
J. P. Kellett & Son, Fountain 
Inn, S. C. writes that they are 
picking approximately 20 bales 
of Farm Relief 4 cotton from 
12 acres. 
The losses to the south from 
carelessly or ignorantly bought 
seed are very large every year. 
These losses could be eliminated, 
the general profits of agricul¬ 
ture greatly increased, the pros¬ 
perity of all classes indirectly 
or directly dependent on agri¬ 
culture measurably enhanced, 
and the general level of our 
civilization enormously raised 
by the one means of using only 
seed of very high grade varie¬ 
ties of recent pedigree.—D. R. 
Coker. 
NEW WILT COTTON 
SHOWS DP WELL 
IN DELTA 
Test Plot of Coker’s 4-in-l 
Shows Excellent Yield 
in Washington County. 
Mississippi. 
Thirteen years ago a cross of 
Coker’s Clevewilt and Foster 6 
was made from which Coker 
breeders have developed an out¬ 
standing wilt resistant variety. 
This cotton is named Coker’s 4 
in 1 for its four outstanding 
qualities—yield, staple, wilt re¬ 
sistance, and earliness. 
In the spring of 1937, a small 
sample of 4 in 1 seed was fur¬ 
nished Mr. E. W. Wood, one of 
the Delta’s larger planters, 
whose plantations are located 
near Leland. Mr. Wood writes: 
“I have finished gathering the 
special seed (4-in-l) sent me. I 
had 1.4 acres and gathered 
3,330 pounds of seed cotton 
weighing 1,085 pounds of lint.” 
Coker’s own seed increase 
fields of this variety (4-in-l) 
produced an average yield of 
544 lbs. lint per acre. 
This new cotton is being com¬ 
mercially introduced this spring 
(1938) and taking its previous 
record as a basis, a bright fu¬ 
ture is predicted for its per¬ 
formance on medium to heavier 
grades of wilt lands in the sou¬ 
thern cotton belt. Coker’s 4 in 
1 resembles its parent, Foster 6, 
in earliness, medium small weed 
and small leaves and its other 
parent, Clevewilt, in its high 
wilt resistance and good turn¬ 
out—from both parents it in¬ 
herits high yield and premium 
staple (D/ig" to % 2 "). 
The Net Profit of the Farmer 
is the Raw Material of General 
Prosperity. 
NEW CLEVEWILT 
STRAIN LEADS TESTS 
Combines Earliness with 
High Yield. 
Southern wilt land farmers, 
particularly those in the area 
of heavy, yearly weevil damage, 
are interested in the announce¬ 
ment by Coker’s Pedigreed Seed 
Company of a new and superior 
strain of Clevewilt cotton, 
Coker-Clevewilt Strain 7 has 
surpassed previous strains in 
yield, earliness and makes 
smaller weed and less leaf. 
The yielding ability of this 
cotton is attested by its excel¬ 
lent showing in the 1936 and 
1937 tests of the South Carolina 
(Pee Dee) Experiment Station, 
Florence, S. C. In the 1936 
test, Coker-Clevewilt 7 led all 
varieties with a yield of 2628.6 
pounds seed cotton per acre. 
Of significant note is its heavy, 
early pick—1,183 pounds gath¬ 
ered August 26. In the 1937 
test Clevewilt 7 stood near the 
top and led all other wilt varie¬ 
ties with a yield of 2510.7 
pounds seed cotton. 1930-1 
pounds was gathered at the first 
picking. 
This new wilt cotton has 
shown its ability to produce 
good yields on the three differ¬ 
ent types of wilt lands thus far 
discovered by George J. Wilds, 
Coker’s Head Plant Breeder. 
Coker Cottons Maintain 
Excellent Contest Record 
Edgefield County Woman 
Leads State. 
In the 1936 S. C. Five-Acre 
Cotton Contest, Coker cottons 
won six of the eight prizes 
awarded, including First Prize 
for the 9th consecutive time. 
Mrs. Carrie B. Smith, wife of 
“Uncle Bob” Smith, Champion 
S. C. Cotton grower, produced 
a record yield of 6,640 lbs. of 
l-Yss" staple lint on her Five- 
Acre Plot with Coker’s Cleve¬ 
wilt—the highest yield ever re¬ 
ported in the S. C. Five-Acre 
contest. 
P. M. Arant, Chesterfield 
County, won Second Prize with 
a yield of 6,265 lbs. lint which 
stapled l-% 2 ". Mr. Arant also 
used Coker’s Clevewilt. 
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