Show may pick cotton from trees experiments are now being made to cross the cotton plant of 0 the southern states 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 0 the cotton tree Is about ten years the great saving Is self belt evident Re planting will only have to be done 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 run as high as SO 80 to the pound |