ABOVE—Picking 100 boll samples in our 1953 Coker 100 Wilt 
strains test near Chester, S. C. 
BELOW—This 1953 field of Coker 100 Wilt on the Shotwell 
Plantation at Tchula, Miss., produced 2.60 bales per acre for Mr. 
Henry C. Waterer, left. With him is his farm manager, Mr. Shaw, 
center; and Dr. J. Winston Neely, director of plant breeding and 
agricultural research for Coker’s Pedigreed Seed Company. 
Coker 100 Wilt has made an outstanding record in 
yield trials conducted in most parts of the South. At 
the same time letters from farmers, one-variety com- 
munity organizations and county agents praising Coker 
100 Wilt are written evidence of its superior perform- 
ance in the field, its high quality and top selling value. 
Reports on its splendid performance have been re- 
ceived from such widely separated areas as southern 
Virginia, Florida, Missouri, Tennessee and the Rio 
Grande Valley of Texas. Its superior record in the 
Southeast is best evidenced by the fact that by U. S. 
Department of Agriculture figures 70 per cent of the 
cotton produced in the six states of the Southeast is 
Coker 100 Wilt. 
EXTENSIVE TESTS 
Coker breeders conduct extensive cotton breeding and 
testing programs at Rich Square, North Carolina; at 
Hartsville and Chester in South Carolina; in Mississippi 
at Lake Cormorant, Greenwood and Morehead; Hunts- 
ville, Alabama; Leachville, Arkansas; and Sikeston, 
Missouri. Varieties are tested eight years before seed 
of them are sold. Special techniques and analyses are 
employed to determine the ability of these cottons to 
perform at all these locations. They are also tested by 
State and Federal Experiment stations throughout the 
Cotton Belt from the Carolinas to the Rio Grande 
Valley. These intensified breeding and testing programs 
combined with the employment of efficient techniques 
and the use of data from Experiment Station tests 
help to explain why Coker 100 Wilt has made a record 
of superior performance in the field from the Carolinas 
to Missouri, and why Coker 100 Wilt out-performs 
other varieties that were developed under more localized 
breeding and testing. 
