ADEQUATE EQUIPMENT 
MEANS 
1. More Efficient Breeding 
2. Purity of Seed Stocks 
3. Better Varieties 
In our field and laboratory work our breeders use the 
best equipment possible to assure you of pure seed 
stocks of superior varieties. Sometimes the type of 
equipment needed is not available and has to be designed 
and built especially for us. 
Examples of equipment used in our cotton breeding 
programs are shown on this page. On the right, top is 
a 16” roller gin which is used to gin plant selections 
which consist of one-fourth to one pound of seed cotton. 
This equipment is designed to completely gin these 
small samples and to allow the recovery of seed and 
lint for weighing and lint percentage determination. 
Construction is simple and there is no danger of mixing 
of seed which fall in a box at the knees of the operator. 
In the center is a 20-saw gin complete with fan, seed 
cotton conveyer, separator, cleaner-feeder, saws, brush, 
and condenser. Single-row samples ranging from 5 to 
25 pounds seed cotton and first year increase blocks 
ranging from 200 to 1500 pounds of seed cotton are 
ginned on this equipment. All seed and lint can be re- 
covered in the ginning process and weighed for lint 
percentage calculations. Every part of the equipment 
is designed for quick inspection and easy cleaning to 
avoid any mixing of seed cotton or of seed. 
The bottom picture is a gin with three 80-saw stands. 
This equipment is used to gin seed cotton from increase 
blocks yielding a bale or more. The unloading fan 
and pipes, dropper, distributor, cleaners, gin breasts, 
and seed conveyers are easily inspected and quickly 
cleaned and there is no mixing of seed in the ginning 
process. 
There is much more specially designed equipment 
that is used in the planting, harvesting, and weighing 
of experimental plots; in the determination of fiber 
and seed qualities; and in the compiling and calcula- 
tion of data. 
FRUITS CLOSE 
“T have used Coker 100 Wilt cotton seed since 1948. 
It fruits close, the joints are close, it can be left in a 
thicker stand than some other varieties, and it has 
less foliage than many cottons grown here. During 
these five years I have grown more than a bale per 
acre. In 1952, I was third place district winner in 27 
Southeast Georgia counties in the state 5-acre cotton 
contest. I have booked all my planting seed already and 
they are Coker 100 Wilt.” 
Embree C. Hunnicutt 
Statesboro, Ga. 
PRIZE WINNING YIELDS 
“T have planted Coker 100 Wilt cotton since 1948. 
With this variety I have been able to win the state 
5-acre contest in 1948, second place district prize in 
1951, and first district prize in 1952. I am well satisfied 
with Coker 100 Wilt and intend to plant it again this 
year.” 
J. W. Trunnell 
Cochran, Ga. 
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