Ranking the varieties according to their excess of lint cot- 

 ton per acre over Peerless in each part of the field, the varie- 

 ties heading the list are Texas Oak, Griffin, Hawkins, Deering, 

 Mell Cross No. 15 (a cross between the W. A. Cook and 

 Cherry Chester varieties), Jones Re-improved, Duncan, Hutch- 

 inson, Peterkin, Truitt, and Whatley. 



As is usual in variety tests at all experiment stations 

 there is a great difference in the rank of varieties tested in two 

 different seasons, 1896 and 1897. In 1897 all varieties were 

 seriously injured by "black rust," except the very late varie- 

 ties. Bates and Peterkin, of which only about 5 per cent, of 

 the plants appeared to be seriously damaged. This disease 

 was most prevalent on the early varieties, Dicksoo, Deering, 

 and Peerless. 



Classification of Lint. 



The numbered samples of lint were classified by Mr. H. 

 L. Bandy, a cotton buyer of Opelika, Ala. His classification 

 was as follows : 



Good Middling, ^tV^* — Duncan. 



Strict 3Tiddling,b^c — Jones and Texas Oak (flatter rated 

 at 5y3gC.), Truitt, Peterkin, Mell Cross No. 3, and Mell Cross 

 No. 55. 



Barely Strict Middling^ 5^c. — Whatley. 



determined for the Hutchinson variety because of an error, which was 

 discovered by the failure of the weight of seed cotton just before gin- 

 ning to approximately agree with the sum of the weights of the 

 several pickings. With all other varieties there was a close agreement 

 between these 2 sets of figures, but with the Hutchinson there was a dis- 

 crepancy of 12 pounds of lint cotton. The complete records in which 

 the error occurs are therefore published here for this variety : First 

 picking of one-sixteenth acre plot, 36.8 pounds of seed cotton ; second 

 picking, 20.7 pounds; third picking, 3.3 pounds; and fourth picking, 0.5 

 pound. The error is believed to be in the weight of seed cotton at first 

 picking. The smaller weight (weight at ginning) is evidently cor- 

 rect for it is checked by the weight of lint, and is used in the above 

 table for the Hutchinson, as well as for all other varieties. 



