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In the case of the greatly improved Russell strain, which has become distinctive enough in good lint characters and yield to be designated as a new variety — the so-called Columbia cotton — these longer fibers are evident to a remarkable degree. THE TRUE NATURE OF THE LONGER FIBEl^S. It has been more or less the rule with cotton breeders and cotton growers acquainted with the requisites of desirable lint characters to regard these extra-long fibers as an unfavorable feature. In this light they ...meant a variation toward nonuniformity. In the work of selec- tion, to avoid as much as possible a perpetuation of this sort of varia- tion, plants showing this character most markedly were regarded with suspicion and later even discarded, although in other respects they were among the best in the field. A careful examination leads to the conclusion that these fibers should be regarded in a wholl}'^ different light. They are not longer Jihers aS they have heen generally considered^ hut are caused hy more or less curling and interweaving ^ which results in the pulling out of fibers from adjacent seeds.
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