60 The Bulletin. 



Lifter are the ones that have yielded the highest percentage of lint to 

 seed. "With these varieties in 1904 the percentage of lint to seed varied 

 from 35.42 per cent with Excelsior Prolific at the Edgecombe farm to 

 43.03 per cent with Moss' Improved at Iredell. The percentage yield of 

 lint alone of a variety is frequently an unsafe guide in selecting a variety 

 that will produce a large amount of lint cotton per acre. 



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' at the Iredell farm, it has 

 required the following number of bolls to yield a pound of seed cotton ; 

 Russell's Big Boll, at Edgecombe, 53 ; and at Iredell, 72. Culpepper's 

 Improved, at Edgecombe, 60, and at Iredell, 74. Edgeworth, at Edge- 

 combe, 66, and at Iredell, 79. These are late varieties and heavy pro- 

 ducers 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 Edgecombe 

 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, Edge- 

 worth, Culpepper's Improved, King's Improved, Russell'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 generally be found advisable to use 

 the best of the earlier maturing varieties, such as King's Improved. 

 Edgeworth, and Excelsior Prolific ; while on the more open, sandy and 

 loamy soils of the east and southeast the larger-boiled and more vigor- 

 ously 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 five 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 re- 

 sults, the use of either King's Improved, Culpepper's Improved, Edge- 

 worth, 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 grow- 

 ing season for cotton is comparatively short, There are other promising 

 varieties being tested, but data for a sufficient number of years are not 

 yet in hand to justify anything like definite statements in reference to 

 them and their adaptability to different localities. 



