OUR TWENTY-SIXTH ANNUAL CATALOG 
The steady growth of the Marett Farm and Seed Company over a period of 
twenty-six years is, we believe, the best possible testimonial of the quality of our 
service to Southern Agriculture. During this period of time it has been our aim to 
constantly improve our methods in the light of sound scientific experience in breed- 
ing procedure. 
For any degree of success in plant breeding work, which is a highly specialized 
activity, it is necessary that the breeders know intimately the nature and charac- 
teristics of the varieties and strains with which they work, being constantly on the 
lookout for any desirable variations that may be fixed in new varieties. By careful 
observations, and by accurate comparisons of differences in performance as deter- 
mined by reliable yield testing, we can make selections confidently. 
However, selection work is not confined altogether to field results, but con- 
tinues right on into the laboratory. Each year hundreds of samples coming from 
promising cotton lines are submitted to the University of Tennessee Fiber Research 
Laboratory. Here extensive tests are made on strength, length, uniformity ratio, and 
fiber structure. In short, these tests determine quality, which is coming to be of 
more and more importance in marketing of cotton. 
By fair, honest, and conservative descriptions of our varieties, and by the closest 
checking of germination and purity to type, we have been selling and delivering 
high quality planting stock to growers in practically every county in the Southeast. 
By strict adherence to the policy of supplying the highest quality at reasonable 
prices we have won the confidence of the trade, and we esteem this patronage very 
highly. 
PLANT BREEDING STAFF 
Capt. W. T. McClure, Jr., Plant Breeder, (Now 
in armed services. ) 
S. J. Hadden, Plant Breeder. 
G. M. Barnett, Plant Breeder. 
ee 
H. S. Hull, Representative. 
MARETT FARM & SEED COMPANY 
Westminster, S. C. 
