Roosevelt Standard | 1914-11-09 | Page 3 | May Pick Cotton from Trees

may pick cotton from trees experiments are now being made tc cross the cotton plant of the southern states state with the cotton tree of 0 panama As our native cotton plant Is an annual and has to be planted each year while the producing life of the cotton tree tred Is about ten years the great saving Is self evident Re planting will only have to be done don once every ten years or more and the boll of the hybrid is much larger than that of the plant bolls from the hy brid average 18 to the pound while ordinary cotton bolls sometimes som eHmes run as high as 80 to the pound