The Bulletin. 



47 



Edgeworth has a rather heavy stalk, is short limbed with large leaves and 

 is rather late in maturing. It runs about 34 per cent lint. 



Cook's Improved has large plants, heavily limbed, the lower limbs very 

 long and open; bolls medium size but long, slender and tapering; rather 

 late in maturing. The percentage of lint for a period of six years averaged 

 39.02. This cotton seems to give a slightly higher per cent of lint on heavy 

 soils than on light soils. 



Simpkins's Improved is a small stalked, short limbed variety; a rather 

 heavy fruiter, mediumly early maturing; but maturing at one time rather 

 than continuously, and for this reason is not very well liked where there is 

 a scarcity of pickers. The bolls are small and do not hold the lint very well. 



The following table gives the yearly yields of these different varieties of 

 cotton on the different test farms of the State covering a period of seven 

 years. 



Ruasell's Big Boll: 



Edgecombe Farm... 



Red Springs Farm.. 



Iredell Farm 



Culpepper's Improved: 



Edgecombe Farm... 



Red Springs Farm.. 



Iredell Farm 



King's Improved: 



Edgecombe Farm... 



Red Springs Farm.. 



Iredell Farm ._ 



Excelsior Prolific: 



Edgecombe Farm... 



Red Springs Farm.. 



Iredell Farm 



Edgeworth: 



Edgecombe Farm... 



Red Springs Farm.. 



Iredell Farm. 



Cook's Improved: 



Edgecombe Farm... 



Red Springs Farm.. 



Iredell Farm 



Simpkins' Prolific: 



Edgecombe Farm... 



Red Springs Farm.. 



Iredell Farm 



1903 



554.53 

 367.87 



425.83 



456.87 



323.91 

 355.45 



335.70 



1904 



409 .44 

 291.32 

 224 .32 



368.51 

 343.45 

 217.04 



541.51 

 330.28 

 247.85 



592 .86 

 383.41 

 168.39 



598.86 

 332 .52 

 221.31 



1905 



616.36 

 199 .05 

 279 .39 



671 .72 

 237.51 

 276.36 



667.59 

 198.23 

 400.69 



623.87 

 216.57 

 296.88 



577.59 

 182.41 

 268 .58 



674.36 

 278.21 

 284.05 



1906 



1907 



1908 



682.61 i 328.07 , 362.50 



1909 



699.30 373.40 



335.25 



317.18 

 719.10 



198.10 

 344.30 



313.30 



350.60 



324 .80 

 509.70 

 265.50 



287.52 

 289.85 

 451 .71 



351.19 

 448.95 



373.12 

 443.00 



316.56 i 



525.60 I 401.80 



359.00 

 288.10 



i 342.00 



i 



; 357.02 



307.28 233.70 



681 .87 



519.60 



359 .00 

 374.40 



352 .78 



342 .80 



455 .00 

 341.50 

 402.40 



320.32 

 469.85 



291 .75 

 426.75 

 360.03 



*Farm discontinued 1905. 



From a study of these figures it will be seen that there is a rather wide 

 range of variations in yields of each variety on the same soils and on 

 different soils. It is natural that there should be some variation on soils of 

 different types, but it seems rather striking that there should be such a wide 

 variation on the same soil when the culture and the fertilizers were the 

 same. The climatic changes would, of course, affect the crops of different 

 years somewhat, but hardly enough to justify such a wide variation. The 

 fault would seem to lie with the seed more than anything else. Presumably 

 , not enough care was taken in the selection of seed and the quality of seed 

 used. 



