4 BULLETIN 476, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



collected buth in the Piedmont and Coastal Plains sections, while 



sampling was confined to the Coastal Plains during the 1914-15 

 season. 



Table: l. Percentages of the different lengths of staple of cotton sampled in 

 < n<h town during the 1915-16 season. 





Length of staple in inches. 



Section. 



Average 



Market. 



Less 

 than J. 



I 



u 



1 



1A 



li 



l&and 

 longer. 



staple 

 length. 





Per ct. 



25 



4 



Per ct. 

 65 

 36 



4 



82 



3 

 65 

 26 



1 

 21 

 27 

 39 

 86 



3 

 42 

 71 

 30 

 70 

 35 



1 

 80 



1 

 31 

 27 



Per ct. 



7 

 15 

 18 

 16 



7 



30 

 454 



2 

 35 

 59 

 58 



74 



5 



48 

 28* 

 62* 



74 



50 

 16 

 12 



7 

 33 



9 



Pi ret. 



2 

 38 

 80 



2 

 36 



34 

 26 

 43 

 37 

 14 



1 



4 



33 



10 



i 



Per ct. 

 1 

 4 

 14 



Per ct. 



Pud. 



Coastal 



Pindmont. 



Coastal 



...do 



86 





4 



2 



.95 



1 00 













.S75 





1.1 

 1 



30 

 4 



24 

 50 



3 



8 



14 



Piedmont. 



Coastal 



...do... 



1 0G 



Goldsboro 



.91 









94 



Kings Mountain 





2 

 14 



1 



Piedmont. 



Coastal 



...do 



' 1 03 





2 



95 







.94 





H 

 5" 



4 



50 



* 



8 





Piedmont. 



Coastal 



...do 



Piedmont. 



Coastal 



Piedmont. 



Coastal 



...do 



.94 





4 



4 



875 





97 





.94 













.875 





4 

 22 



2 



4 







.94 



Scotland Neck 





4 



.875 





13 



28 



2 



60 

 32 

 62 







.94 



Statesville 



52 



31 

 3 



14 



3 

 1 



4 





Piedmont. 



Coastal 



Piedmont. 



Coastal 



. . .do 



1.03 





5 





.88 





4 



1.00 







.94 







4 





.97 















Total number of bales stapled for all the above towns, 25,020. 



COMPARISON OF COTTON PRODUCED IN THE PIEDMONT AND COASTAL PLAIN 



SECTIONS. 



It will be observed from a study of Table I that although the 

 samples of cotton from the towns of the Piedmont section have not 

 in every case staple superior to that of towns in the Coastal Plain, 

 as a class they do have a longer staple. The difference in the general 

 character of the cotton of the two sections is marked and commer- 

 cially recognized. 



The cotton of the Coastal Plain is uniform in length of staple 

 and is of good strength. Most of it is rather light in body, but there 

 is a fair amount of heavy-bodied cotton of good quality. This indi- 

 cates that, if proper attention were paid to selecting suitable varieties 

 for planting, the value of the crop would be materially increased. 

 Although some cotton of poor character is produced in the Piedmont 

 section of the State, and more careful selection of the varieties to be 

 planted would be amply rewarded, the cotton of the Piedmont section 

 is superior to that of the Coastal Plains. One cause for this differ- 

 ence is due to the fact that there are a number of small, primitive 

 plantation gins located in the Coastal Plain section of the State, 

 and only about half the cotton .produced in that section is ginned at 



