Excerpt from Coker’s Pedigreed Seeds: Spring 1927
These full length Clevelands have averaged more pounds of lint per acre than the best short staple strains that they have been tested against and the cotton has brought from 100 to 400 points premium over other Cleveland Big Boll cottons.
Our breeding work with Express cotton was started in 1917 when the first plant selections were made from two strains 28-350 and 28-341, seed of which had been secured from Mr. E. C. Ewing, then in charge of cotton breeding at the Mississippi A. M. College. From the eighth selection from 28-350 our Lightning Express strain No. 1 was de scended. Since 1917 we have bred and introduced six superior strains of this valuable cotton.
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