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ent types of soil in a different locality, seems usually to be attended 

 by an increase in per cent of seed and decrease in per cent of lint. 



Proportion and Composition of Kernels and Hulls of Different 

 Varieties. — In Table IV are brouj^ht tooether results obtained on 

 seed of twenty-one varieties of cotton grown on the Edgecombe Test 



HULLS OF DIFFERENT VARIETIES AND THEIR COMPOSITION. 



the kernels, Black Texas Wood contained them in the smallest per- 

 centage and Shine's Extra Early Prolific in the highest, with an aver- 

 age for the twenty-one varieties of 42. GO per cent. 



The average percentage of moisture in the air-dried kernels varied 

 from 4.89 to 7.37, with an average of 5,90; while that in the hulls 

 ranged from 9.13 to 11.83, with the average at 10.58, which is 1.8 

 times as much as is present in the kernels. 



