The Bulletin. 



Volume 28. North Carolina State Board of Agriculture. Number 2 



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Entered at the Raleigrh Post-office as second-class mail matter. 



The Bulletin is published monthly by the State Board of Agriculture. 



RALEIGH, FEBRUARY, 1907. 



SEVEITTH (PAETTAL^) REPOKT OF THE WORK ON THE 

 DEPARTMENT TEST FARMS FOR SEASON 1906, 



INCLUDING 



VARIETY AND DISTANCE TESTS OF CORN AND 



COTTON. 



BY 



C. B. Williams, Farm^Ceops, 



AND 



G. T. Bullock, Superintendent Edgecombe Test Farm, 

 F. T. Meacham, Superintendent Iredell Test Farm, 

 R. W. CoLLETT, Superintendent TIiansylvania Test Farm, 

 William I^rr,^ Superintendent Experiment Station Farm. 



On the following pages are recorded the results of this year's work 

 with the variety and distance tests of corn and cotton on the Depart- 

 ment's Test Farms. The testing of these two factors in the produc- 

 tion of cotton and corn is of the most fundamental importance, as is 

 evidenced by the difference in yield of different varieties and of 

 different distancing when grown side by side in the same field, on 

 the same type of soil, with identical cultivation and fertilization. 

 Its importance is further emphasized when it is considered that 64.7 



1 The main portion of the work for 1902, 19C3, 1904, 1905 and 1906 is reserved for publication later, 

 when the results of our tests, which have now been running some six or seven years, will be brought 

 together, with the view of drawing such conclusions as may be warranted on the subjects covered 

 by the experiments. 



- B. F. Walton was Superintendent of the Experiment Station farm during 1903, 1904 and 1905. 



