Madison Journal - 1940 Waterproof Cotton?
Date submitted: January 13, 2014

Submitted by: Richard P. Sevier

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					Saunders Claims New Waterproof Cotton Variety
						From July 19, 1940 Madison Journal

E. B. Saunders, manager of the Montrose Plantation south of Tallulah this week brought into the 
Journal office a couple of branches of cotton stalks showing how the cotton on his place has made 
in spite of the continual rains.

Mr. Saunders had one limb which he said was taken from cotton that was planted as Delta Pine. 
This branch had nine bolls on it, some practically grown. Mr. Saunders said that this cotton had 
fruited this well in spite of the continual rains, and that he had about decided that it was a new 
variety which was waterproof. He said he intended to watch this cotton, and if it continues to turn 
out as it promises, he was going to advise other farmers to purchase some of the seed from him to 
be used for wet spells. Mr. Saunders said that the only drawback to this venture would be the question 
as to what this cotton would do if it were completely covered with water. He said that he was afraid 
that a headline would come out in some paper similar to the one which appeared in a Natchez, Miss., 
paper several years ago when a truck loaded with negroes ran over the ferry at that place and plunged 
into the river. The Natchez paper came out the next day with the headline: "Truck Runs In River; 
Nine Waterproof Negroes Drown."

Mr. Saunders also brought in another limb from a stalk of Sea Island cotton. This limb was well bolled 
too, and Mr. Saunders said that if they mature he felt that he would make a pretty good crop. He said 
that he had about forty acres which was bolled about as well as the sample. The Sea Island bolls, 
however, were not nearly as mature as the bolls on the other cotton.