Petit Gulf cotton

[2] It proved more resistant than the green seed cotton from Georgia as long as planters followed the breeding process used in Rodney.

of Washington, Mississippi wrote to the editor of the Natchez Courier, "a Mr. Lewellyn Price, then a planter in the Gulf hills, in Claiborne county, near where Oakland College stands, has the credit of first growing it to any extent.

From this small beginning it spread, until now it has become the principal dependence for a crop through the entire cotton growing region.

"[5] The version that appeared in a Natchez newspaper in 1871 said the seeds came from a visiting trader:[6] Now there happened about the year 1816 to be a trade carried on between the highlands of Mississippi and the prairies bordering on Mexico and Western Texas.

On one of these visits he brought him a small package of cotton seed...the yield was satisfactory; the bolls did not rot, and they opened as invitingly as a hospitable landlord; the picking was easy.

Immediately their fame spread and they long went by the name of the Petit Gulf seed, though in reality they were Mexican.

[11] Rush Nutt's son Haller Nutt—also a wealthy slave owner, planter and agronomist—developed and marketed a cotton cultivar known as Egypto-Mexican beginning in 1841.