A NEW PLANT
- kARTAFICILAL/eO'FTON.. | -f United Press Association—By Electric :■ 'Telegraph—Copyright). (Received this day at 9.25. a.in.) NEW YORK, May .14. Doctor C. J. Medley Thornton ol London,, has arrived with .specimens ol new artificial cotton, lie said this substitute, was first found in I birds nest’s in South America, and the. refined plant from flic original had been crossed and rccrossed with sixty-live different species. Tlie plant was lint subject to depredations of ball weevil and could be grown in a most any climate or soil at one fifth ol the cost of growing eol't m, and in its- filial Ibniv had more lustre and strength than .real cotton. Thornton who is chairman of the English'' artificial Colton Corporation' is here to introduce the fibrous plant to American cotton growers and manufacturers?
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 May 1929, Page 6
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132A NEW PLANT Hokitika Guardian, 15 May 1929, Page 6
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