Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 259, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1914 — May Pick Cotton From Trees. [ARTICLE]

May Pick Cotton From Trees.

Experiments are now being made to cross the cotton plant of the southern states with the cotton tree of Panama. As our native cotton plant is an annual and has to be planted each year, while the producing life of the cotton tree is about ten years, the great saving is self-evident Replanting will only have to be don® once every ten years or more and th® boll of the hybrid is much larger than that of the plarjt. Bolls from the hybrid average 18 to the pound, while ordinary cotton bolls sometimes run as high as 80 to the pound.