COKER 100 WILT strain 4 
AN IMPROVED STRAIN WITH BETTER PRODUCTION RECORD 
Coker 100 Wilt is the best general purpose 
cotton that we have ever bred—a cotton 
with the widest adaptability, and one that is 
giving the most general satisfaction, both 
on wilt and non-wilt soils. 
It was bred to fill the specific demand of 
those growers of Coker 100 Cotton whose 
soils were becoming infested with wilt to 
such an extent that non-wilt cottons could 
not be grown profitably. 
After nine years of intensive and exten- 
Sive selection and testing on wilt infested 
soils Coker 100 Wilt Strain 1 was offered 
in the spring of 1942. Those growers of this 
cotton who entered the South Carolina 1942 
Five-Acre contest won six out of eight prizes 
offered. Strain 2 was offered for 19438 plant- 
ing and that year the growers with these 
two strains won all of the eight prizes. A 
record made by no other cotton during the 
16 years this contest has been conducted. 
This test was highly competitive and on a 
state-wide basis, from the mountains to the 
sea coast, on all types of soil, and results 
prove its adaptability and merit. This merit 
has been corroborated by consistent high yield 
records made by this cotton both in wilt and 
non-wilt variety tests conducted by experi- 
ment stations from Mississippi through the 
Carolinas. 
We have never before had a cotton with 
so many good qualities. Our breeding pro- 
gram is so extensive and so planned as to 
guarantee improvement in each succeeding 
strain. Not only must new strains meet the 
growers’ demand but the cotton spinners’ 
specifications. Accordingly, starting with the 
plant-to-row, fiber analyses are made on each 
year’s crop, and spinning tests starting with 
the first year increase. Before a cotton is 
offered we have yield records and fiber data 
on four separate years’ crop, and spinning 
performance on three years’ crop. This sys- 
tem assures progress and satisfaction to both 
grower and manufacturer. 
Coker 100 Wilt Strain 4 is a worthy suc- 
cessor to previous strains and combines all 
the good qualities of these, such as wilt 
resistance, medium thin foliage and beau- 
tiful wide fluffy easily picked bolls, and has 
a still higher production record, a slightly 
longer staple and a few lightly linted almost 
naked seed—from its wilt resistant parent. 
DESCRIPTION 
Plant—Erect, semi-determinate in type. 
Vigorous with more erect well spaced 
fruiting branches and two to four 
vegetative branches. 
Foliage—Thin with deeply lobed medium 
sized leaves. 
Season—Very early. 
Bolls—Round ovate, slightly pointed, 70 
to 72 to pound, open extremely wide and 
fluff beautifully yet storm resistant. 
Lint Length—114.” to 1%6” 
conditions. 
Lint Percent—37% to 39%. 
Character—Excellent, uniform, strong. 
under good 
Production—High. 
Wilt Resistance—High. 
PRICES: $12.50 per 100-tb bag, $220 per 
ton, F. O. B., Hartsville, S. C., and 
Memphis, Tenn. 
All seed treated with Ceresan. 
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CAUTION: Due to the development of 
apparently new races of wilt, complicated 
by adverse seasonal conditions, improper 
fertilization and the presence in some in- 
stances of the deadly meadow nematode, 
no conscientious breeder can guarantee any 
wilt resistant cotton to survive on any wilt 
infested soils. 
