Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1860 — Bumble Bee Cotton. [ARTICLE]

Bumble Bee Cotton.

Townsend £L.Glover, of the Patent Office at Washington, who is travelling through the Soujth to examine into tht disease of the cotton plant, was recently enlightened in regard tp a new species of cotton, in a manner thui described by the Memphis correspondent of the New Orleans Picayunes He was traveling a few days ago from Holy Springs on the cars, when they passed throughia section of country where the land was entirely sterile, the cotton being only a few inches high. An overseer was setting on the sjeat before him. “Why, what do you call this!” asked G lover. 1 “Why, that’s cotton.” "Cotton,” he asked again, in surprise. "Ves,|a new kind of cotton sent out by the Patent Office.” This jtvas a matter of interest to Glover, •; so he opiened his eyes wider. “What ia the name of] the cotton!” “The •bumble bee cotton,” quickly remarked his comjpanion. “Why that name!” “Because it grows so small a bumble bee kin sat 4n his tail and suck all the blossomes without moving.” All hands broke into a loud laugh, and Glovor nr know ledged himself sold