Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-01
The wORM-PROOF COTTON.
Mr.. L. c. Whites Wonderful Dis
covery of Which so Much Is Being
Safd-Where ft Grows. How IL Ma
tures and what the People Think
OF IL.
Jasper CTeras) Ne,osboy.

Jasper (TeTds) NetcSbOy
This worm-proof, extra prolific, rapid
growing and early maturing cotton,
whose fame has already spread through
out the American continent, and beyond
the seas among the French and English
and in Spain and India, was grown and
mixed with native weeds in the quiet
little village of Jasper.
The land on which this cotton was
grown has been in cultivation ever since
1924, and is said to be the first spot of
land ever cleared and cultivated in JAS
per county. The land (not by any
means fair representation OF East Texas
soil, for we have much better is sandy
hillside. with slope of about six feet
in distance Of seyentyive yards, and
is TOO poor for anything but goober peas,
grapes and hybrid cotton.
Mr.. White first began experimenting
with the hybridizing method in 1862,
since which time he has made success
of his undertaking. and has given it the
test on every hand, it bearing out even
beyond his most sanguine expectations
The cotton has now been thoroughly
hybridiZed for three years, each crop
ping season of which crop has been
raised, and though worms have ravaged
the cotton farms in close proximity to it,
and worms have been placed on the
growing plant. they have never dined
upon its foliage.
Mr.. White has gathered one hundred
and eighty-two matured, open bolls from
one stalk of the second crop of this sea-
son, which is deliberately explained in
the following, which appeared in the
Net1sb0y about two months since:
"Tbe hybrid cotton is all right. a
Ne1esb0y reporter strolled around to Mr..
Whites garden, few evenings since,
and was shown a large cotton stalk,
which sports something over 200 bolls,
blooms aud squares, of which about 70
b0lls will mature and open within the
next ten days The interesting feature
Of this plant is the fact that it has grown
from seeds that were raised this year
the first planting being on the 4th of
April last, and the whole crop matured,
opened and was gathered by the 18th of
August, and the second planting, from
which grew the stalk which is the SUBJ
ject of this article, was made in July
from seeds gathered of first planting
Mr. White also has young plant from
seeds of tie second crop, making the
young plant the third growth of this
season. OF course the young plant can
not mature cotton before frost, but it is
something strictly new TO sec cotton OF
the third generation, each Of the same
season.
The following, which is somewhat
complimentary TO the grade of lint pro-
duced by the hybrid cotton, we clip from
the Galveston Netos, of 1879:
"Alr L. G. White, of Jasper. Jasper
county, Texas, sends Mr.. A. G. Mills
Secretary of the Galveston Cotton Ex-
change, two samples Of worm proof lint
cotton, to be submitted to the Classifica-
ton and Quotation Committee for their
views, etc. the samples are numbered
one and two. The committee, after
careful inspection Of the samples, reports
both staples Of fair length, remarkable
strength, aud very silky-No. 2 the best
This cotton has been produced by Mr.
White after some sixteen or seventeen
years of labor and study, by amalga-
mating ordinary cotton with weed
the weed and his process are his secret.
Mr.. White further states that
the weed with which this cotton is mixed
was never known to be eaten by worm
or insect OF any kind"
The writer examined the cotton grow
ing; the stalks were large and healthy, 9
brownish red color, the leaf resembling
ordinary cotton, with very rank weed
odor; the bolls were larger than ordinary
cotton, and well filled with lint In the
centre of each boil there is a small pod
containing evidently the seed of the
weed. When the boil is fully opened,
this pod of seed is also opened, and the
seed drops out, leaving the lint cotton in
the boil The bolls will all mature
within a few days of each other. This
the planter could remedy by planting at
different times. Mr.. w. says the cotton
can be picked within one hundred days
after planting. Dir. White has taken
stalks of ordinary cotton with the cot
ton worm at work on them, placed them
in and alongside Of his cotton, SO that
the worm could easily get on his cotton,
but in no instance did they cut any of
! the leaves, stalks or bolls of his cotton.
He has gathered the worms from the
| other cotton stalks and placed them on
his cotton with the same result, and
| feels very confident that no worm will
ever touch it.
The following little ''squib, showing
what the leading journals of America
think of the hybridized staple, we clip
from the New York Cotton, of Septem-
Der, 1880:
Mr.. White, of Jasper, Tex, sends US
d sample of the lint from his worm
proof cotton, for which he has applied
for patent. The sample may be seen
at the office of Cotton. In addition to
its worm proof qualities, it is aremsrk-
ablv fine eianle