GERMANS GROW COTTON
BERLIN Dec. 21 Germany has raised her first cotton crop, says the Prussian Agricultural Experimental Station in a report today. Cotton seeds were sown in hothouses, and later the young plants were transferred into open fields. They grew to a height of about four and a half feet and bore numerous pods. Experts are now trying to cultivate a plant hardy enough to be planted in the open.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20186, 2 March 1940, Page 5
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