
Increase field Coker-Wilds cotton showing well spaced fruiting branches and wide fluffy 
opening of bolls which reduces weather damage and makes for ease of picking. 
COKER-WILDS (1948) 
1948 REGISTERED BREEDER FOUNDATION STOCK 
A productive, early maturing variety with staple length of 114” to 13%”, 
of high tensile strength and superior spinning value. 
OUTSTANDING UPLAND LONG STAPLE VARIETY 
Wilds cotton is recognized from Texas to the Carolinas, 
both by growers and manufacturers, as the outstanding up- 
land long staple variety and as having little competition in 
its length class. The high tensile strength and excellent 
spinning qualities of this cotton occa- 
sion the highest rating by manufac- 
turers of the finer yarns. The dependa- 
bility, earliness, vigor, drought resis- 
tance, high production, gin turnout 
and excellent qualities give it the 
highest rating by growers of staple 
cotton. 
Wilds cotton has the highest tensile 
strength of any commercial upland 
cotton and produces yarns even strong- | | | 
er than this strength would indicate. agers Fs 
BREEDING HISTORY 
During the summer of 1920, our Dr. 
George J. Wilds and Dr. Herbert J. Webber (then a member 
of our staff) made a number of hand pollinated crosses be- 
tween several of our best varieties of cotton. One of these was 
a cross between a strain of our Lightning Express and a 
strain of our Deltatype Webber cottons. After five years of 

Pulled lint sample Coker-Wilds cotton 
selection of individual plants of this crossed or hybrid cotton, 
a row of great uniformity and excellent quality showed up. 
The following year the seed of this row were increased and 
tested against our best strain of Deltatype, which had been 
our leading long staple cotton up to that time. In this test, 
which was repeated four times, the 
new hybrid led in each replication— 
producing more seed cotton per acre, 
larger bolls and with a staple fully as 
long as Deltatype. In addition the per- 
centage of lint to seed was 2% higher 
and the character of the cotton better 
and stronger. 
Coker-Wilds cotton was first offered 
for planting in the spring of 1928 and 
has been continuously bred and im- 
proved since that time. In our breeding 
program, which extends back to 1920 
when the original cross was made, we 
are each year testing hundreds of 
superior plants of this variety and only those plant families 
which are proven superior in production, type, spinning value 
and other desirable characteristics are increased. 
Our 1948 Wilds cotton is a beautiful flat topped, determi- 
nate, more spreading cotton, with exceptionally high tensile 

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