Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 252, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1917 — GROWS NEW “WOOL COTTON” [ARTICLE]

GROWS NEW “WOOL COTTON”

Product Is Easy to Pick and Immune From the Dreaded 801 l / Weevils. Waycrosse, Ga. —The first “wool cotton” ever seen in Waycross was shown here by Roan Meeks of Nichols. This cotton was grown by Dave Anderson on his farm near Nichols and has attracted a great deal of attention. The cotton grows in from three to four locks to the boll and these locks measure about five or six inches in length. Expert cotton growers claim that one man can pick from 700 -to 1,000 pounds per day of this variety. The plant Is very similar In appearance to the long staple and grows to be from five to six feet high—the fiber of the dotton, however, is short and looks very much like wool, hence its name. It is claimed for this variety of cotton that it is practically immune from the boll weeV|l and in support of this it Is claimed that not any trace of the boll weevil has been found in the small field of this variety grown by Mr. Anderson, while in the nearby fields of the regular variety the weevils were numerous.