6 The Bulletin 



The Expekiment Station Farm. 



The cotton varieties were planted in a field of sandy clay loam located 

 about two miles west of Raleigh. The test contained seven long-staple 

 and thirty-seven short-staple varieties. Check rows of Culpepper were 

 included after each ten rows of varieties. 



Among the varieties were Cleveland Big Boll from five sources, and 

 strains of King from six sources. The Cleveland strains ranged in yield 

 between 452 and 531 pounds of lint per acre. With the exception of 

 two strains, they were quite different in size of plant, shape of leaves, 

 size of bolls and quality of staple. The King strains ranged in yield 

 between 1,058 and 1,417 pounds of seed cotton per acre, a difference of 

 359 pounds between the lowest and highest. All of these strains showed 

 mixtures, and four were very different in habit of growth, shape of 

 leaves and size of bolls. The results represent conditions which might 

 exist in any variety so generally grown as Cleveland Big Boll and King. 

 Variety names may be misleading unless we secure our seed from known 

 sources. 



The following tables contain a list of the varieties and data arranged 

 according to yield of lint and seed per acre : 



