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at a plantation just back of Rodney, then called Petit Gulf. He formed a sort of attachment for his host. On one of these visits he brought him a small package of cotton seed...the yield was satisfactory; the bolls did not rot, and they opened as invitingly as a hospitable landlord; the picking was easy. Inmediately their fame spread and they long went by the name of the Petit Gulf seed, though in reality they were
Mexican. Many fortunes were made by Petit Gulf panters. The old black seed disappred gradually and the Mexican improved still holds sway.
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stands, has the credit of first growing it to any extent. As Mr. Price never was fully certain of who first gave him the few seeds from which he, ultimately, grew his crop, it is only necessary to say that he began with three or four seeds which were given to him as
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Now there happened about the year 1816 to be a trade carried on between the highlands of
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According to one local historian, there are two legends about how McNutt acquired the seed: "The first is that he got the seed in Egypt while on a world cruise. The other is that he found it in Mexico and offered to buy some. Told that the country did not allow the export of cotton seed, he was
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as long as planters followed the breeding process used in Rodney. Petit Gulf was said to be less likely to harbor diseases and rot than other breeds of cotton. Moreover, it was easier to pick with a human hand, thus leading to greater productivity.
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offered an alternative by the resourceful
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