Show may pick cotton from trees experiments are now being made to cross crosb the cotton plant of the southern states with the cotton tree of 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 sav ing Is self evident Re planting will only have to be done once every ten years or more and the boll of 0 the hybrid Is much larger than that at of 0 the plant bolls from the hy by brid average 18 to t the he pound while ordinary cotton bolls sometimes run as high as 80 to td the pound |