COKER 100 WILT 
1952 Breeder's Registered Seed 
Our 1952 Breeder’s Registered Seed possesses the 
best combination of desirable characteristics of any 
variety that we have ever bred or tested. It was 
developed through many years of scientific breeding 
and testing to provide the cotton grower with a va- 
riety that would net more money than any other 
variety that he could plant. 
YIELDING ABILITY 
Maximum yields are necessary for greatest profit. 
Coker 100 Wilt, because of its wide adaptation, abun- 
dant fruiting characteristic, wilt resistance, earli- 
ness, and stormproofness, has been outstanding in 
yield. The ability of Coker 100 Wilt to produce high 
yields has been conclusively proved in our own ex- 
perimental tests on wilt-infested soils from the Caro- 
linas through Mississippi and Arkansas and by results 
obtained in tests conducted by State and Federal 
experiment stations throughout the cotton belt. Its 
performance on thousands of farms has shown it to 
be a truly outstanding variety. In 37 five-acre state- 
wide contests in North Carolina, South Carolina, and 
Georgia, Coker 100 Wilt has won first place 35 times. 
WILT RESISTANCE 
Fusarium wilt has infested the soils of large areas 
throughout the entire cotton belt. Profitable yields 
cannot be obtained unless a wilt-resistant variety is 
grown. Our trained and experienced plant breeders 
and pathologists are working together in breeding 
for wilt resistance. They have succeeded in combin- 
ing high yields and excellent fiber quality with resist- 
ance. Coker 100 Wilt, because of its yielding ability, 
is a leading producer on non-wilt soils. This char- 
acteristic, combined with high wilt-resistance, makes 
Coker 100 Wilt the cotton that can be depended upon 
for profitable yields of high quality cotton in wilt- 
infested fields. 
PICKING QUALITY 
Coker 100 Wilt, being early and having fluffy bolls, 
thin foliage, and desirable plant type, is especially 
adapted to hand or machine picking. The ease with 
which it can be cleaned in the gin assures the grower 
of a sample with the minimum amount of trash and 
the best gin preparation that could be obtained with 
any variety. Growers who have been leaders in 
mechanized production have been enthusiastic in 
their praise of Coker 100 Wilt and its adaptation to 
mechanical harvesting. 
FIBER QUALITY 
Coker 100 Wilt is outstanding in quality of fiber 
as the result of many years of breeding, selection, 
and testing for improved fiber and spinning char- 
acteristics. Through an amendment to the Smith- 
Doxey Act, passed in 1941, the services of the fiber 
and spinning laboratories of the U. S. Department 
of Agriculture were made available to breeders and 
others on a fee per sample basis. Tens of thousands 
of lint samples of Coker 100 Wilt breeding stocks 
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have been sent to these laboratories during the 11 
years that these services have been available. The 
extensive use of fiber technology in the selection of 
new strains has resulted in the 1952 Breeder’s Regis- 
tered Strain being outstanding in fiber and spinning 
qualities and in its being sought for and praised by 
the cotton mills. This has been accomplished along 
with an increase in yield and an improvement in 
other characteristics. Cotton buyers and cotton man- 
ufacturers recognize Coker Wilt as being a cotton 
with character and with a very low amount of waste. 
STAPLE LENGTH 
Coker 100 Wilt produces a staple of 1442 to 1% 
inches on average soils in average seasons. In favor- 
able seasons and on heavy, fertile soils, such as those 
in the Mississippi Delta, it frequently produces a 
longer staple. 
COKER 100 WILT ’52 BREEDER’S 
REGISTERED SEED 
DESCRIPTION 
Plant—Erect, semi-determinate in type. Vigorous 
with more erect branches. Well adapted to mech- 
anized culture and harvesting, and to control of 
insects. 
Foliage—Thin, with deeply-lobed, medium 
leaves, usually easy to defoliate. 
Season—Very early, escaping maximum boll weevil 
damage and mid-season to late-season moisture 
shortage. 
Bolls—Round ovate, slightly pointed, 70 to 72 per 
pound, well-fluffed, storm resistant. 
Lint Length—114.” to 134.” under average condi- 
tions, longer under good conditions. 
Lint Percent—37% to 39% under average conditions, 
higher under more favorable conditions. 
Fiber Quality—Excellent, uniform, strong. Sought 
for and praised by buyers and manufacturers. 
Production—High. Widely adapted. 
Wilt Resistance—High resistance to Fusarium and 
tolerant, though not resistant, to Verticillium. 
Picking Quality—The best. Type of plants, amount of 
foliage, fluffiness and storm resistance of bolls, 
and cleanability of lint well suited to hand and 
mechanical picking. 
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PRICES MACHINE DELINTED SEED 
Coker 100 Wilt, 1952 Breeder’s Registered Seed 
$13.75 per 100 lb. bag, $250.00 per ton. 
PRICES ACID DELINTED SEED 
Coker 100 Wilt, 1952 Breeder’s Registered Seed 
$11.75 per 50 Ib. bag, $430.00 per ton. 
All Prices F.O.B. Hartsville, S. C., 
and Memphis, Tenn. 
ALL SEED TREATED WITH CERESAN 
