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R3%'IREMEIITS AND IvETHODS OF GROWING COTTON 

 Tiiue to Maturity - 7-9 r.onths. 



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Soil Requirer.ents- 



Annual or perennial, according to hov/ handled. 



Responds to Pood soil conditions, doing best on silt 

 loams, altho all good r;oils do well; 4' or more 

 in depth. 



C limatic Re-.uirem-snte- Dry weather during growing season, high temperature 



for 4 or 5 months, and lack of rains at time of 

 maturity. 



Water Requirements and Irrigation - Plenty of moisture required throughout 



gro'vth -jyith avoidance of over-irrigation. 



Calendar of Operations- 



Preparing Seed Bed : January - March land irrigated, plowed, disked 



and listed into rows 42" apart, harrowed and 

 dragged into a seed bed. 



Planting: 



Time : March - June (April 15,- May 15 best) 



Quantity: 20- 30# 



Method and Distance: Rov/s 3 l/2 - 4 • apart 



Care of Gro".'ing Crop: 



Crop thinned to 1 plant every 12 to 13" (June) when plants 

 are 6 - 8" tall. Crop irrigated 4-8 times 

 by furrows from April to October, Crop culti- 

 vated 3-5 times, beginning in April, and 

 continuing to last of June. 



Varieties; Durango (m.edium long), Mebane Triumph (short) 



Harvest 



Yields. 



V/hen: Septentar - February 



Hov; : Picked by hand. Shipped to public gin for ginning 

 and baling into 500# bales. 



Good : IbOff lint 

 Usual : 400f " 



By-Froducts- 



Kind : Cotton seed and linters (fuzz from seed) 



Amount : Seed = 10% of yield figures, linters BOj^ per ton 



\i/here and for what sold: Stock feed and oil 



Commercial Sections- 



Imperial and ^iverside Counties. 



NOTE: 



P^tio of lint tc seed cotton varies from 28 to SS/i. 1500# seed 



cotton required to 1 bale of lint. A bale of lint weighs about ^OOj^ 



