The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-07-28
RAISES C'CLORED COTTON
CAROLINA FARMER HAS PRO-
DCCED SEVERAL SHADES.
A. W. Brabham of Olar Shows Brown,
Yellow and Green Fibre-Working
for Black, Red, Gray and Blue.

A recent article appearing in sew
readers of this paper. 1t was the re-
marks made by A. W. Brabham, of
Olar, S. c., WHO, it seems, has per-
fected specimens of brown, yellow
and green cotton, and is working on
four others. He feels certain that
black, red and gray cotton can be
produced, and has heard of the devel-
opment of blue shade.
"The making of the three different
shades of cotton" says Mr.. Brabham,
lis no guesswork, no hypothesis, but
a plain, simple fact. Look how soon
Jacob changed the color of the entire
herd of Laban's COWS. Look how
soon a hog dealer changed the color
of his hogs; a poultry raiser changed
the color of his chickens; kennel
keeper the color of his dogs. I have
no doubt of the feasibility of colored
cottons; some of them exist now.
The black variety, which seems to
have aroused most interest, is being
developed now in Mexico.
Recently I heard of new variety
blue. Before me now is a letter
from C. H. Clarke, president of the
J. H. Bragdon Company Of Boston,
who is interested in all textile pro-
ducts, but he doubts that any color
but brown and blue can be produced
in cotton. Mr.. Clarke says: 1t has
been understood that these tinted
cottons are due TO the soil character
istics Of the districts where they are
grown There is no reason in such
a declaration. Brown cotton will be
brown wherever grown: yellow cot
ton will be yellow grown in any part
of the co-ton-nroducing world. The
seed and not the soil produces colored
| cotton.
"Mr. Clarke seems to doubt the ex-
| istence of red cotton, but is familiar
with blue cotton, a sort unknown to
me and of which I intend to ask him
for information. Blue cotton I will
then be able to add to my coloreo
sorts. I now have on hand or in
prospect red, brown, blue, yellow
green and gray cotton. Red cotton
| is a native of Peru; the gray comes
from India, the brown from Egypt;
the yellow comes from China; the
green has been developed here II
South Carolina; of the blue I know
nothing, but I hope Mr.. Clarke viii
give me light on this.
Mate two different colors OF the
same species and variation takes
place, and the type Of this variation
can be made fixed type of another
variation, and so on ad ininitum
producing countless variations.
| "The common belief that soil and
climate have all to do with producing
the color of either animal or plant is
nonsense. A white man will be white
at the equator or in the polar re-
gions. White cotton produces in the
tropics as white lint as that produced
in the extreme northern or southern
limits of growth.
Zone may ask, Why grow colorec
cotton? There were imported dur
ing April by American mills over
$4,000 bales af cotton growl
abroad, and much of this was of the
colored sort. At this rate our mills
will use in year six hundred thou
sand bales of foreign cotton which
can be grown here Colored cottor
lasts longer and mercerizes better
than the white sort. The chemica
dyes, or some of them, eat up the
fabrics.
81 was perhaps the first person tc
find out that different variations o.
peas would mate and that the off
spring would be more valuable thar
either parent plant. Our next dream
is colored cottons and there is nc
reason on earth this should be
dream. We have fixed the types ot
at least two kinds, and why not 9th
ers? I have gone far enough with
the work to know that it can be done
"Tc produce many sorts the breed
er must obtain the five primal sort:
white, red, brown, yellow and
black. The white we have in great
abundance. The red cotton is ma
tive of Peru and any breeder can pro,
cure seed. The brown also is ma,
tive of Peru. but it is best to procure
seed from the Nile Delta. The vel.
low is native of China-and produces
well with us. In India is found 6
gray-linted cotton. The green-linted
cotton has been developed here. But
we need the black most Of all. Once
this is fixed no fear need be entertain
ed of it's breeding back to either par.
ent plant as long as care is taken tc
keep it from contract with some other
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