COKER 100 WILT 
1947 
1947 BREEDER FOUNDATION STOCK 
An 1445” to 1345” cotton combining a high degree of resistance to Fusarium Wilt, 
excellent picking qualities, extra earliness, and high yield. 
The best evidence that we have of the satis- 
factory performance and wide adaptability of 
our Coker 100 Wilt for both wilt and non-wilt 

TO OUR 
CUSTOMERS 
We, of Coker’s Pedigreed 
Seed Company, are gratified 
with the general acceptance 
of our cottons in the South- 
ern Cotton Belt. We feel that 
it is a trust placed in us that 
can only be satisfied by the 
continuance of our breeding program to furnish 
better and more productive cotton with emphasis on 
dollar return to the grower and manufacturer. 
As the need for resistance to new diseases arises, 
or as a new quality is demanded by consumers, we 
feel that our wealth of breeding material, combined 
with the “know-how” of 45 years of plant breeding, 
can meet that need or demand. 
It is our pledge to you that we will accept this 
responsibility and work shoulder to shoulder with 
the cotton farmer in the never ending fight to keep 
cotton in its rightful place as leader among textile 
fibres. 
Below—W. G. Smith and W. G. Smith, Jr., of Johnston, S. C., show 
their field of Coker 100 Wilt to R. W. McCreight, Coker Dealer for 
Edgefield County. This field is entered in the 1947 S. C. 5-acre Cotton 
Contest and from advance reports has a good chance to win a prize. 
Young Mr. Smith is the third generation of that family to grow Coker 


lands, is its general acceptance by the farmers of 
the Southern Cotton Belt. Based on reports re- 
ceived from Extension Cotton Specialists, not less 
than 214 million acres were planted to this variety 
in 1947. Since this cotton was first offered for 
sale only six years ago, the acreage now planted 
is even more significant. 
Fusarium Wilt, already a serious problem in 
much of the cotton belt, is becoming more of a 
problem in the Piedmont areas of the Carolinas, 
in Georgia and in the Mississinni River Valley. Our 
1947 Breeder Stock Coker 100 Wilt cotton is our 
answer to the demand for a full length, highly 
productive variety equally well adapted for plant- 
ing on either wilt or non-wilt soils, and especially 
suited for a program of mechanized production 
and machine picking. 
Our 1947 Coker 100 Wilt cotton is the result 
of 16 years of extensive selection. and the 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 re- 
sistance, fibre strength and spinning quality. 
Coker 100 Wilt Widely Adapted 
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. 
Here at Hartsville where, on some of our lands 
cotton has been grown almost continuously for 
100 years, we are fortunate in having soils heavily 
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cottons exclusively. His father and grandfather have won eight different 
prizes in the S. C. 5-acre Cotton Contest since its beginning in 1926 
Right—Note wide, fluffy opening of bolls and evenly spaced fruiting 
branches of this field of 1947 Coker 100 Wilt. Robert R. Coker, Vice- 
President of the Company, is shown in the field. 

