

COKER FARMS ATTRACT THOUSANDS OF VISITORS 
The work of Coker’s Pedigreed Seed Company attracts 
thousands of visitors annually. Scientists and Govern- 
ment officials from practically all foreign countries in which 
cotton is grown have visited Hartsville for the purpose of 
seeing these Seed Breeding farms. 
The Coker Company remembers with pride the visits of 
many distinguished men—Secretaries of Agriculture Houston 
and Jardine; Herbert Hoover, while he was Secretary of 
Commerce; Mr. Daniel C. Roper, Secretary of Commerce; 
Thomas R. Marshall, Vice President of the United States; 
Clifford R. Hope, present Chairman of the House Agricul- 
tural Committee and his Committee members; Senators, 
Governors and Directors of Extension of many of the South- 
ern states—these are but a few of the hundreds of nationally 
prominent men who have found it worth their while to see 
the work of this Company. 
County Agricultural Agents, Vocational Teachers and 
others have not been slow to realize the value of this Com- 
pany as a free agricultural institution, and each year they 
bring parties of farmers to see the breeding experiments. 
During 1948 alone more than 5,000 farmers, farm Veteran 
trainees, agricultural students, and others visited the Coker 
farms. 

LEFT—Long lines of visitors’ cars parked along the highway leading 
through the Coker Farms are a familiar sight during the summer months. 
CENTER—Many Veterans’ classes visit the Coker Farms as part of their 
farm training. The Negro Veterans’ class above is from Berkeley County, 
S. C. RIGHT—South Carolina fertilizer manufacturers, dealers, and sales- 
men, inspect our Wilt breeding plots during a visit arranged by Clemson 
College Fertilizer Department. 

Distinguished group Mississippi Valley planters, bankers and businessmen 
who flew in by chartered plane to inspect our cotton breeding work on 
August 30. Left to right: V. E. Hilliard, Vice-President, National Bank of 
Commerce, Memphis, Tenn., C. N. Buchanan, Helena Wholesale Grocery 
Co., Helena, Arkansas, W. K. Anderson, Planter and Ginner, Clarksdale, 
Miss., John G. Hoyt, President, B. C. Land Company, Leachville, Ark., 
O. K. Earp, Vice-President, Union Planters National Bank & Trust Co., 
Memphis, Tenn., John C. Terral, Manager, Farmers Seed & Feed Co., Lake 
Providence, La., J. B. Creedon, Russell Heckle Seed Co., Memphis, Tenn., 
R. K. Nelson, Manager Seed Sales,. E. S. Voelker Co., Alexandria, La., 
R. E. Jeter, Planter & Ginner, Wabbaseka, Ark., Herbert Eustis, General 
Manager, The Goyer Co., Greenville, Miss., E. A. Stacy, Planter and Ginner, 
Dell, Ark., J. D. Laws, Asst. Vice-President, First National Bank, Memphis, 
Tenn., Carlton V. Ware, C. V. Ware & Son, Pine Bluff, Ark., Gerald 
Dearing, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn., Dr. George J. Wilds, 
President, Coker’s Pedigreed Seed Co., Hartsville, S. C., Mayor R. W. 
Shand, Hartsville, S. C., Robert R. Coker, Vice-President, Coker’s Pedigreed 
Seed Co., Hartsville, S. C., J. B. Lancaster, President, Modern Farm Service, 
New Roads, La., M. L. Walt, Planter and Ginner, Little Rock, Ark., J. C. 
Wilkerson, Planter, Newellton, La., Francis Hickman, Editor, Cotton Trade 
Journal, Memphis, Tenn., R. G. Deener, Deener & Skillern, Searcy, Ark., 
E. R. McDonald, Sr., Newellton Mill & Elevator Co., Newellton, La., three 
Delta Air Lines employees, R. S. Entzminger, Representative Coker’s Pedi- 
greed Seed Company, Hartsville, S. C., J. R. Thompson, Representative 
Coker’s Pedigreed Seed Company, Memphis, Tenn. 
