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Show 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 an-nual and has to be planted each year, while the producing life of the cotton tree is about ten years, the great Bav-ing Bav-ing is self-evident Replanting will only have to be don once every ten years or more and the boll of the hybrid Is much larger than that of the plant. Bolls from the hybrid hy-brid average 18 to the pound, while ordinary cotton bolls sometimes run as high as 80 to the pound. |