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COKER 100 WILT (1946) 
1946 BREEDER FOUNDATION STOCK+ 
An 11%” to 15,.” cotton* — Adapted for wilt infested or non-wilt soils. 
Fusarium Wilt, already a serious problem in 
much of the Cotton Belt, is becoming more and 
more of a problem in the Mississippi River Val- 
ley. Our 1946 Breeder Stock Coker 100 Wilt cot- 
ton is our answer to the demand for a full length, 
highly productive variety equally well adapted 
for planting on either wilt or non-wilt soils, and 
especially suited for a program of mechanized 
production and machine picking. 
Our Coker 100 Wilt combines more desirable 
qualities than our regular Coker 100 (non-wilt) 
and our 4-in-1 (wilt resistant) cottons, and since 
we consider it a safer cotton to plant, we are 
offering it in place of them. 
1144 MILLION ACRES COKER 100 WILT 
PLANTED IN 1945 
Our Coker 100 Wilt in the five years 
that it has been on the market, has grown in 
popularity to a point where it is estimated that 
over 114 million acres were planted to it in 1945. 
A wealth of breeding material assures our cus- 
tomers of constant improvements in this variety 
for the future. 
In the 1945 Delta Experiment Station New 
Cotton Strains Test, Coker 100 Wilt Strain 5 
averaged 2894 lbs. seed cotton and 929 lbs. lint 
per acre with a staple length of 36.3 thirty- 
seconds, and 66.5 bolls per lb. of seed cotton. 
We consider our 1946 Coker 100 Wilt to be 
the most dependable and widely adapted cotton 
we have bred, performing uniformly well from 
the Carolina Coastal Plains to the Mississippi 
Delta, and the Rio Grande Valley on both wilt 
and non-wilt soils. 
We quote as follows from the 1944 variety 
test report of the Mississippi Agricultural Ex- 
periment Station: 
“It should be noted that Coker 100 Wilt has 
performed good to well in nearly all tests in re- 
cent years, and on soil with moderate wilt in- 
festation is usually a top producer.” 
(Continued on page 10, col. 1) 
*This description of our 1946 Coker 100 Wilt 
cotton has been written to cover the expected 
performance of this variety under good Miss- 
issippi Valley Delta conditions. A somewhat 
higher lint out-turn and a shorter staple length 
is to be expected in other areas, varying with 
soil and climatic conditions. 
+See Important Note on Page 10 
This mid-season view taken in our main wilt variety test on badly 
(Fusarium) wilt infested soil shows vigorous, healthy growth of Coker 
100 Wilt and badly wilted check row of non-wilt Coker 100. 
Adjoining picture shows similar view of Coker 100 Wilt growing 
beside badly wilted check row taken at maturity. 
Photo at right shows Dr. George J. Wilds, Sales Representative 
J. W. Talbert, and Farm Manager Richard S. Cathcart inspecting field 
of Coker 100 Wilt (1946) growing on our Hartsville plantation. 

