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Browns No. 1 ranked second in 1906 and fourth in 1907 at Edge- 

 combe ; twelfth in 1906 and fifth in 1907 at Iredell. 



Braswell's Cluster ranked nineteenth in 1905, third in 1906 and 

 tenth in 1907 at Edgecombe; and twenty-fourth at Iredell in 1907. 



Bigliam's Improved ranked sixth in 1906 and seventh in 1907 at 

 Edgecombe; and sixth in 1906 and fourteenth in 1907 at Iredell. 



Drakes Defiance ranked ninth in 1906 at Edgecombe; and ninth 

 in 1906 and sixteenth in 1907 at Iredell. 



Simpkins Prolific ranked eighteenth in 1906 and eighth in 1907 

 at Edgecombe; and eighth in 1907 at Iredell. 



Mortgage Lifter ranked twenty-third in 1906 and twenty-sixth in 

 1907 at Edgecombe; and fifteenth in 1906 and tenth in 1907 at 

 Iredell. 



Cleveland's Big Boll ranked first at Edgecombe and seventh at 

 Iredell in this year's tests. 



Hodge ranked fifth in 1904, fourth in 1905 and fifteenth in 1907 

 at Edgecombe; and fourth in 1904 and second in 1905 at Iredell. 



Peterkin's Improved ranked second in 1901 and 1902, fourth in 



1903, sixteenth in 1904, sixth in 1905 and twenty-fifth in 1907 at 

 Edgecombe; eighth in 1903, twenty-first in 1904 and twentieth in 

 1905 at Iredell. 



Excelsior Prolific ranked second in 1903, seventh in 1904, first in 

 1905 and twenty-third in 1907 at Edgecombe; sixth in 1903 and 



1904, tenth in 1905 and seventeenth in 1907 at Iredell. 

 Alexander Money Maker ranked twenty-second at Edgecombe and 



twelfth at Iredell in this year's tests. 



Morgans Climax ranked fourteenth at Edgecombe in this year's 



tests. 



Culpepper s Re-Improved ranked eleventh at Edgecombe and ninth 



at Iredell in this year's tests. 



Layton's Improved ranked thirteenth in 1905 and nineteenth in 

 1907 at Edgecombe, and fourteenth in 1905 at Iredell. 



Pullnot ranked twenty-first at Edgecombe and first at Iredell in 

 this year's tests. 



Sugar Loaf ranked third at Edgecombe and sixth at Iredell in this 



year's tests. 



Cluster ranked twenty-fourth at Edgecombe and twenty-fourth at 

 Iredell in this year's tests. 



Williams' ranked fifteenth at Iredell in this year's tests. 



STUDY OF COMPILED RESULTS OF VARIETY TESTS OF COTTON. 



Eight years ago the Department of Agriculture, by means of its 

 test farms, began comparative tests of varieties of cotton, with the pur- 

 pose, primarily, of ascertaining, if possible, the varieties that are most 

 prolific of seed cotton per acre when grown under our conditions of 



