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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, but data for a suffi- 

 cient number of years are not yet in hand to justify anything like 

 definite statements in reference to them and their adaptability to dif- 

 ferent localities. 



CORRELATION OF CHARACTERS OF VARIETIES OF COTTON. 



With cotton, as with corn, it is of the highest importance for farm- 

 ers, and imperative for all those who are studying or trying to im- 

 prove varieties, to know what characters are usually antagonistic and 

 what ones are mutually helpful in their economic development. In 

 Table XII are compiled, in concise form, the' results of four years' 

 tests at Edgecombe, five at Iredell and two at Red Springs. From 

 this compilation, supplemented by observation in the field and at the 

 gin, the following tentative inferences are made in reference to the 

 varieties of upland cotton tested, when grown under the conditions of 

 climate and soil as represented by these three farms : 



