The Bulletin. 



ings made under widely varying conditions, it may be stated that 

 this phmt is composed, approximately, of 20i/j per cent of loaves, 

 23 per cent of seed, IOI/2 per cent of lint, and 461^4 per cent of 

 stem, limbs, bolls, and roots combined. 



Composition. — As the result of qnite a number of analyses, made 

 in the Chemical Laboratory of the State Department of Agriculture, 

 of entire cotton plants of the crop of 1001, and taken from the 

 experimental grounds of the Edgecombe Test farm, it was found 

 that the different parts of the plant on plats fertilized differently con- 

 tained, respectively, the percentages of fertilizing constituents given 

 in the following table : 



QUALITY OF FERTILIZING CONSTITUENTS REMOVED PER ACRE BY THE SEED 

 VARIETY IN 1901 AT THE EDGECOMBE TEST FAKM. 



"As the separations of seed and lint were not made in 1901, it is assumed to be the same as the average of 

 the separations of 1900, 1902 and 1903, and this average is used in calculating the results recorded in the last five 

 columns of this table. Culpepper's Improved vs^as the variety used in this vsrork. 



