Article recounts the talented amateur agronomist J. A. Webb's diligent work to perfect a better variety of cotton, which he marketed as Webb's Purple cotton seed beginning in 1933.
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Article recounts the talented amateur agronomist J. A. Webb's diligent work to perfect a better variety of cotton, which he marketed as Webb's Purple cotton seed beginning in 1933.
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Abstract: In 1928 a cotton farmer discovered strange cotton plants growing in his field near Union City in Canadian County. The leaves were purple, and the bolls were set in clusters. A talented amateur agronomist, J. A. Webb diligently worked for the next three decades to perfect a better variety, and he marketed the seed as Webb's Purple cotton.
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Albers-Nelson, M. Rene & Verhalen, Laval M.J. A. Webb: Early-Day Cotton Breeder from Union City, Oklahoma,
article,
Winter 2006;
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
(https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2006435/:
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crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.