To Our Farmer Friends 
We cordially invite you to come to Hartsville to see 
our work in cotton breeding. Our cottons are now well 
ahead of normal in growth and fruitage due to excellent 
seasons and we are therefore issuing our annual invita¬ 
tion at this time. We hope that you can be with us 
at the earliest date that you find convenient. 
The five superior new strains of cotton which we 
will offer for sale next season and our other standard 
varieties can be seen in large increase fields. We are 
offering two new strains of Coker 100, one which we 
have named Coker 200, Strain 1, which has a smaller 
weed, thinner foliage and is earlier than Strain 2— 
the other, Coker 100, Strain 3, which is more vigorous, 
has a longer staple and higher lint per cent; also, a new 
strain of our wilt resistant 4-in-l cotton, which is more 
wilt resistant and has a better yield record; a superior 
Clevewilt Strain 7 selection and a longer, thinner 
foliaged and earlier Wilds cotton. 
Our vast layout of cotton breeding work including 
variety tests, plant to rows, and first and second year 
increase blocks are at an interesting stage. The results 
of our wilt breeding work can also be seen to good 
advantage now. 
You will be interested in seeing our extensive tobacco 
breeding experiments, our effective weevil control 
methods, corn breeding tests, soy bean varieties, a 
disease resistant sugar cane and one of the South’s 
outstanding Guernsey herds. 
We will do our best to make your visit both pleasant 
and profitable regardless of the number in your group 
and will appreciate your writing us a few days in 
advance of your trip so that we may have a man avail¬ 
able to show you around and may have on hand an 
adequate supply of delicious Darlington County water¬ 
melons. 
Very truly yours, 
HOW GROWING CONDITIONS AFFECT 
YOUR COTTON 
The length, percentage of lint and boll size of every 
variety of cotton will vary under varying conditions of 
soil fertility, culture and rainfall. Our descriptions are 
based on the actual records that our cottons have 
produced in our tests, and they will show the same 
characteristics elsewhere under the same conditions. 
Drought or poor conditions will result in a shorter 
staple, reduced yields and smaller bolls—no matter 
what variety is planted. 
Cokerb Pedigreed Seed Company 
HARTSVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA 
