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OKER 100 WILT (1946) 
1946 BREEDER FOUNDATION STOCK* 
A Highly Wilt Resistant, General Purpose Cotton Suited 
for Wilt or Non-Wilt Soils 
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 1% million acres were planted to it in 
1945. A wealth of breeding material assures our customers 
of constant improvements in this variety for the future. 
It 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. 
Our 1946 Coker 100 Wilt cotton is the result of fifteen 
years of intensive selection and testing of many thousands 
of plants on wilt infested soils. Selections have been’ made 
on the basis of wilt resistance, yield, staple, picking 
quality, storm resistance, fiber strength and spinning 
quality. 
This cotton combines more desirable qualities than any 
variety we have bred or tested during our forty-three 
years’ experience in cotton breeding. 
ADAPTED FOR ONE VARIETY PLANTING 
We consider that Coker 100 Wilt is especially well suited 
for use in one variety communities in the Coastal Plains, 
Sandhills, and Piedmont for it is making record yields in 
these areas on both wilt and non-wilt land. 
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. 
VARIETY TEST RECORD 
Coker 100 Wilt is 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. 
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 seer cotton. 
In a three-year average test (1948-1945) of eight cotton 
varieties conducted at three locations in the Coastal Plain 
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*IMPORTANT NOTE: We have decided on a change in 
our established method of identifying our various varie- 
ties of seed, which we believe our customers will approve 
of. Hereafter, we will eliminate the strain numbers on 
our varieties of seed, and instead will identify these varie- 
ties by date or year the seed were produced. As an example, 
our new Coker 100 Wilt is being labeled Coker 100 Wilt— 
1946 Breeder Foundation Stock. This does not involve any 
change in our breeding program, but is being done in order 
to avoid confusion between different strain numbers of the 
same variety and so that our customers will know the year 
that these strains and varieties were produced for sale by 
us. 
Photo at right — Shows Farm Overseer Fred Allen in increase 
field of our 1946 Coker 100 Wilt cotton. Note wide fluffy opening of bolls. 

