4 BULLETIN 526, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Table I. — List of localities where experiments in single-stalk cotton culture were 

 conducted in 1915, showing cooperators therein. 



State and parish or county. 



Farmer. 



Address. 



County agent. 



Louisiana: 



Pointe Coupee 



John Hebert 







Do 



Alfred Robillard . . . 



.do 



Do 





Killarney Plantation 



R. K. Boney 





T.I. AVatson 



Do 



Duckport 



Delta Point 



Do 



Do 



R. C. Webb . 



Do 







E. S. Burt 



Do 



W. B. Wilbourn 



do 



Do. 



Caddo 



C. C. Herndon... 



Shreveport 



A. J. Scott 



Do 





Do. 



Jackson > 





Gilbert 





Arkansas: 



Miller 



D. R. Akin 



Fouke T. F. T.ne.ker. 



Do 



J F. Tanner 



Texarkana 



do 



Do. 



Do 



W. B. Latta 



Do. 



North Carolina: 



W. K. Benson 



Battleboro 



Whitakers 





Do 





Do. 



Do 



W. R. Felton... 



Do. 



Sampson 



H. D. Sloan 







Do 



W. I. Wright 



do 



Do. 



Do 



L. F. Green 



do 



Do. 



Duplin 







D. J. Middleton. 



Craven 







J. W. Sears. 



Do 



B. C. Peterson 



Vanceboro 



Do. 









1 Three experiments were conducted at this point. When the farms were visited on August 13, 1915, 

 the conditions all appeared favorable to single-stalk culture. However, repeated requests have failed to 

 bring any report of the final results obtained, so these experiments can not be included herein. 



In the case of some of the farmers listed in the table, as will be 

 pointed out later, relatively poor stands were obtained, for which 

 certain allowances must be made. In most of the cases in which the 

 stands were uniformly good, a fairly adequate comparison of methods 

 was possible; but in others, as will be shown, thinning certainly was 

 done too late to secure the best results, and in some instances the 

 crop may have been injured in this way. 



METHODS OF PROCEDURE. 



SELECTION OF COOPERATORS. 



The county agents selected from among the farmers in their respective 

 counties (or parishes) a few of those who were most interested and 

 gave evidence of being able to carry out instructions. They are not 

 necessarily the best farmers in their respective counties, but they are 

 representative of the better farmers. Their farms are so distributed 

 as to afford conditions fairly typical of those over a large part of 

 each State, except in the case of Arkansas, where flood damage re- 

 sulted in the abandonment of most of the experiments that were begun. 

 Although the experiments in North Carolina were confined to the 

 eastern district, a large part of the total cotton-growing acreage of 

 the State is represented. In Louisiana, experiments were conducted 

 in sections typical of the larger areas of the State where cotton is 

 grown. 



