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seed cotton. Seed large, covered usually with a thick fuzz, variable from 

 whitish to deep green. Per cent, of lint 30 to 33. Upper limbs often short. 

 Bolls never two-clustered. Varieties noted for late maturity and vigorous 

 growth of stalk. 



CLASS VI. LONG LIMB VARIETIES OR PETIT GULF TYPE. Plants grow to 

 large size, have long limbs and straggling appearance. Bolls and seed medium 

 to large, latter covered with fuzz of various shades. Per cent, of lint low 

 to medium. As a class poorly suited to upland soils. 



CLASS VII. LONG STAPLE VARIETIES OR ALLEN TYPE. Distinguished for 

 length of lint, usually measuring from one and one-eighth to one and five- 

 eighths inches with usually less than 30 per cent, of lint. Plants similar to 

 Class VI. Bolls medium, long, slender, and very pointed. Seeds medium to 

 large, usually densely covered with almost pure white fuzz with no trace of 

 green; more rarely naked seeds distinguished from Class III by larger size. 

 Varieties late maturing. The varieties of this type are believed to have been 

 obtained by selecting hybrids of sea island and upland cotton. Chiefly cul- 

 tivated in the rich alluvial soils of the Yazoo Delta in Mississippi. 



423. Standard and Recommended Varieties. The Alabama 

 Station recommends Peterkin and Truitt as standard and safe 

 medium maturing varieties; for early varieties King, Welborn, 

 Dickson and Peerless are recommended. Other productive va- 

 rieties are Jones Improved, Allen Long Staple, Hawkins, Herlong, 

 and Hunnicutt. 1 In 1904 the different types of cotton yielded 

 as follows : 2 



Table Showing Yield of Upland Cotton 



At the Texas Station the largest yields of seed cotton during 

 three years were obtained from Beck's Big Boll, Dixon's Im- 



1 Alabama Sta. Bui. No. 107 (1899), p. 209. 



2 Alabama Sta. Bui. No. 130 (1905), p. 8. 



