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Yield of lint per acre produced by seed of different ages. 



Old and fresh cottonseed were of about the same value 

 for planting under conditions where a good stand was ob- 

 tained. 



Effect of Late Cultivation. 



Peerless cotton planted April 19 was "laid by " July 12. 

 One plot, however, was cultivated July 26, running a 22- inch 

 heel scrape twice between each row. 



The middle plot, not » laid by " until July 26, yielded 

 1,087 pounds of seed cotton per acre. Two adjacent plots 

 « laid by " two weeks earlier, or at about the usual time, aver- 

 aged 1,052 pounds. The difference of 25 pounds in favor of 

 the plot cultivated late was more than sufiBcient to pay the 

 cost of the extra cultivation. 



Distance Experiments. 



Truitt cotton was planted April 19 on rather medium 

 quality reddish rocky upland. This field had been in corn in 

 1896, and had also borne a light crop of Whippoorwill cow 

 peas between the corn rows. The growth of this bunch vari- 

 ety of cow peas, planted late and in rather thick corn, had 

 been too insignificant to noticeably improve the character of 

 this soil, which has always been inclined to bake. The fertil- 

 ization and cultivation of all plots was identical, except that 



