EXCELLENT FOR HAND AND MACHINE PICKING 
These statements are from three leading 
Mississippi cotton growers. 







‘Pon Hing me abown in tbe dais line on tlegraine sad Gay ster 6 STANDARD TIME at post of origin. Tine of niceigt ESTSNDALD TIAA wt peice be 
CFKIA 67 NL CLARKSDALE MISS OCT 8 1947 
ROBERT & COKER= : 
COKER PEDIGREED SEED co. 
PLANTED 5,400 ACRES ONE VARIETY PLANTING COKER 100 WILT. 
GOOD GERMINATIONs SATISFACTORY STANDS» FOLIAGE MEDIUM. — 
FRUITING CLOSE* OPENING EARLY STOPE 1 1/16 TO 1 3/32 INCH 
IN EXTREMELY HOT SEVENTY FIVE DAY DROUGHTY SEASON 



BO SA BI Fy 




TH HAND AND MEC 
TURNOD 2 10 3OeTr 
STRENGTH SHOWN BY COKER 100 WILT= 
‘KING AND ANDERSON | 

























(1) Our two International Har- 
vester High Drum cotton pickers in 
field of Coker 100 Wilt cotton. Yield 
records and field studies enable us 
to determine picking qualities of 
new strains. 
(2) Close-up of cotton picker 
“finger’’ pulling Coker 100 Wilt from 
boll shows how wide, fluffy open- 
ing exposes maximum area of cot- 
ton to the fast moving spindles. 
(3) Coker 100 Wilt has long been 
recognized for its hand picking qual- 
ities. The tied-up sheet and the cot- 


senremeen —— . sai — ton to the immediate left of it is 
‘eeninan uenseen HOPSON PLANTING COMPANY silinees won oeee part of 447 pounds which one of our 
ARKSOSLE MiSSissiPPl pickers, Emma Moses, gathered in 

a day. 


Octoser Brn, 1947 
(4) “Weighing time” on the Coker 
farms finds plenty of well filled 
sheets and smiles on the Pickers’ 
faces. 
COT 11 1947 

Coxer's Feoiarseo Seep Company 
Haarsvitce, S, C, 



GERTLEMEN: 



1 WISH TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO EXPRESS TO YOU MY ENTHUSTASAM FOR 
Coner 100 WILT COTTON, AS YOU OF COURSE KNOW THIS 13 OUR FIRST VEAR TO PLANT THIS 
VARIETY OF COTTON, THE AESILTS HAVE BEEN 80 OUTSTANDING THAT IT 13 OUR IMTERT HOM 
To PLANT Coxem $00 Witt im 1948, 







TO SAY THAT WE HAVE PRODLSED COTTON THIS YEAR UNDER DIFFICULTIES WOULD 
BE PUTTING IT MILOLY AND [ A SURE THAT YOU WILL AGREE WHEN | TELL YoU THAT FRO JUNE 
12TH, OF THIS YEAR UNTIL THIS DATE WE HAVE NOT HAD OME BALM OR SHOWER HEAVY ENOUGH TO 
STOP WORK OM OUR PLANTATION, THIS HAS BEEN THE MOST SEVERE DROUTH THE WRITER HAS EVER 
EXPERIENCED AND WE ARE HOST PLEASANTLY SURPRISED aT How wei, Coxen 100 WILT HAS Come 
THROUGH THIS EXTREME PERICO WITH & ICs 







WE ARE PICKING OUR COTHON WITH MECHANICAL RARVESTERS ANO FIND THAT THI 
COTTON HAS MANY OF THE QUALITIES WHICH FIT INTO SUCH A PROGRAM, THIS COTTON NOT OMY 
BEGINS TO OPEN EARLY BUT HAS & TENDENCY TO COMPLETE ITS OPENING EARLY, THIS, PLUS ITS 
LARGE AND FLUFFY LOCKS, MAKE 1T A HOST DESIRABLE COTTON FOR MECHANICAL PICKING, QuR 
FIELD YOR WITH MECHANICAL HARVESTERS THIS YEAR $$ THE BEST WE HAVE EVER HAD AND | Aw 
GIVING Coker 100 WILT A LARGE PORTION OF THE CREDIT FOR THIS CONDITION, 





COMPLIMENTS FROM COTTON BUYERS OR THE STRENGTH, LENGTH AND CHARACTER OF THES COTTON, 
THIS HAS NOT SEEN IDLE TALK BY THE BUYERS FOR THEY HAVE BACKED UP THEIA STATEMENTS 
BY ACTIVELY BIDDING OM EACH LOT OF COTTON BE HAVE OFFERED FOR SALEg 1M OTHER woRDS. 
WE HAVE MAD EXCELLENT DEMAND FOR MACHINE PICKEO Comer 100 WILT COTTON 4ND HAVE BEEN 
HIGHLY PLEASED with THE PRICES WE HAVE RECEIVED, 



May! 1 SAY IM CLOSING THAT THE COTTON PRODUCERS OF THIS COUNTRY ARE iMe 
DEED FORTUNATE |}M HAVING IN THEIR MIDST SUCH OUTSTANDING BREEDERS 45 THE BREEDERS OF 
Coxer 100 Want, | 



RESPECTFULLY 


(oe FEF 
BUSINESS MANAGER FOR 
Hoesomw Planting Company, 

