
Tagging a selected cotton plant. Each year we select between forty and The cotton from each selected plant is ginned 
fifty thousand plants—the foundation material for our cotton plant breeding separately and lint percentage determined on accu- 
program. rate precision scales. 


. . . . . . . . | 
| Foundation stock of our future tobacco breeding program. J. V. Showing section of 22-acre small grain breeding plot containing | 
Williamson, tobacco breeder, inspecting bagged plants in one of over 36,000 test rows. Here are bred superior varieties and strains 
| our main tobacco breeding fields. of oats, wheat and rye. 


Cotton class room of Coker Cotton Company where lint samples Group of Sumter County, S. C., farmers inspecting our cotton wilt 
of our commercial crop and increase plots are classed, breeding and test plots, 
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