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varieties with large bolls. 



Russell's Big Boll, Culpepper's Improved, Edgeworth, Double- 

 header, and Brown's No, 1 are the five varieties thus far tested that 

 possess the largest-sized bolls as well as seed. As an average of four 

 years' tests at the Edgecombe farm and three years' each at the Red 

 Springs and Iredell farms, it has required the following number of 

 bolls to yield a pound of seed cotton : Russell's Big Boll at Edgecombe, 

 54 ; at Red Springs, 64 ; and at Iredell, 72. Culpepper's Improved at 

 Edgecombe, 61; at Red Springs, 71; and at Iredell, 74. Edgeworth 

 at Edgecombe, 72 ; at Red Springs, 77 ; and at Iredell, 79. These are 

 late varieties and heavy producers of both lint and seed when planted 

 upon soils that will mature them before frost. 



VARIETIES ADAPTED TO THE EASTERN AND SOUTHEASTERN SECTIONS 



OF THE STATE. 



After a study of our results with varieties obtained at the Edge- 

 combe and Red Springs farms during the past six or seven years, 

 it is found that of the varieties of cotton thus far tested, Excelsior 

 Prolific, Edgeworth, Culpepper's Improved, King's Improved, Rus- 

 sell's Big Boll, and Peterkin's Improved have yielded the largest 

 amounts of seed cotton per acre on an average. In the eastern part 

 of the State, on the stiffer clayey soils, bottom-lands, poorly drained 

 lands and lands near the northern border of the State, it will gener- 

 ally be found advisable to use the best of the earlier maturing varie- 

 ties, such as King's Improved, Edgeworth, and Excelsior Prolific; 

 while on the more open sandy and loamy soils of the east and south- 

 east, the larger-boiled and more vigorously growing varieties, such as 

 Culpepper's Improved and Russell's Big Boll, will generally yield 

 most satisfactory returns. 



VARIETIES ADAPTED TO PIEDMONT SECTION OF THE STATE. 



With reference to varieties of cotton suited to this portion of the 

 State, we cannot assert with the same degree of certainty as we can 

 for the eastern part of the State, as our experiments have only been 

 conducted in Iredell for four years, and with some of the varieties 

 for only the past season. So with reference to this portion of the 

 State on a red-clay soil, we would recommend, tentatively, guided 

 by our results, the use of either King's Improved, Culpepper's Im- 

 proved, Edgeworth, or Excelsior Prolific as the best suited. King's 

 Improved has, in our experiments at the Iredell farm, proved to 

 be the earliest and decidedly the most prolific variety thus far tested 

 there, where the growing season for cotton is comparatively short. 

 There are other promising varieties being tested, biit data for a suffi- 



