UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

 BULLETIN No. 526 



Contribution from the Bureau of Plant Industry 

 WM. A. TAYLOR, Chief 



Washington, D. C. 



PROFESSIONAL PAPER 



August 28, 1918 



EXPERIMENTS WITH SINGLE-STALK COTTON 



CULTURE IN LOUISIANA, ARKANSAS 



AND NORTH CAROLINA 



By 



P. V. CARDON, Assistant Agronomist 



CONTENTS 



Page 



Introduction 1 



Localities Where Experiments Were 



Made 3 



Methods of Procedure 4 



Selection of Cooperators 4 



Plan of the Experiments 5 



Thinning Single-Stalk Rows ... 5 



Recording the Yields ...... 5 



Results Obtained 6 



Yields of Seed Cotton 26 



Yield and Quality of Lint 27 



Lint Percentages 28 



Relative Abundance of Lint . . 28 



Grade and Length of Lint ... 29 



Summary 30 



WASHINGTON 

 GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 



1918 



