Show I Freaks and Oddities I In n Q Science J N News evs I I From Prom a double handful of carbonized seeds found in a small bowl capped by another vessel resting on the shattered floor noor of an ancient dwelling archaeologists archaeologists have deduced the fact tact that cotton was cultivated cultivated cultivated in the Gila valley Arizona as early as 2000 years ea ag ago The Tho charred seeds perfect In form were easily identified by Dr Thomas Kearney of ot the ANCIENT ANCIEN U. U S. S department of oC agriculture He RACES stated There seems to be no doubt GREW that the they are arc cotton seeds The dis- dis COTTON covery of nf the expedition that cotton culture cul cul- cul- cul turo ture in the Gila GlIa valley is of oC so great antiquity is most interesting According to Dr Kearney Kearner the cottons grown by the Pima and Hopi Hop Indians from time immemorial arc are practically the same the difference between them being mostly Furthermore the cottons raised by these two tribes seem to be different from any of the commercial cottons of the world The Pima today are are living on the same ground once occupied by the Hohokam Consequently there isa is isa isa a possibility that cotton dotton plants of or the variety now used by the Pima Indians arc of the same species I as those grown by the ancients in the GUa Glia twenty centuries centuries cen cen- tunes I. I ago S a Methyl the atomic group grouping found in poisonous I wood alcohol as ts well as in a great nany other natural natural nat nat- ural and synthetic organic substances has been isolated isolated iso iso- la d In Germany as a free compound But it remains remains re re- re mains u uncombined combined for only a tenth of a second |