MEADE COTTON REPLACING SEA ISLAISTD. 13 



INSPECTION OF MEADE FIELDS IN GEORGIA. 



In cooperation with the extension division of the Georgia State 

 College of Agriculture, arrangements were made in the spring of 

 1920 to inspect all the Meade plantings in Georgia, in order to locate 

 the fields sufficiently isolated from other cotton to warrant roguing 

 and to ascertain approximately the total acreage devoted to this crop 

 in that State. 



It was found that while more than 5,000 acres had been planted to 

 Meade cotton, fully half of this acreage had been planted either in 

 the same field with short cotton or so close to other varieties that 

 mixing was certain. The remaining 2,500 acres were well isolated, 

 and with promises of being properly ginned the fields were carefully 

 inspected by either representatives of the State College or of the 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture and the off-type plants removed. 



The largest single acreages of Meade cotton were in Worth County, 

 where about 400 acres had been planted on one farm and close to 200 

 acres on another in the immediate vicinity. Both of these plantings 

 were well isolated, and on account of extreme care in growing this va- 

 riety through three previous seasons not more than 30 hybrids or off- 

 type plants were removed from both fields. (PL VII, figs. 1 and 2.) 



ENCOURAGEMENT OF MEADE COTTON IN GEORGIA. 



During the 1920 season, a publicity campaign for Meade cotton 

 was carried through by the State and local interests in Georgia (7) 

 that did much to^ increase the popularity of the variety, 



A leaflet entitled "Meade Cotton" {6) was published by the 

 Georgia Breeders' Association^, containing 10 brief pointed para- 

 graphs on the origin of the variety and the history of its develop- 

 ment in Georgia, as well as information on the comparative merits of 

 the Meade and the Sea Island fiber for spinning purposes. The 

 pamphlet announced that " Meade cotton from a large proportion of 

 the acreage that was planted from pure seed is being concentrated 

 in three warehouses in Georgia, so that spinners may have the ad- 

 vantage of knowing where they can get Meade cotton in quantity." 



The following statement from the same leaflet explains the method 

 of tracing impure stocks of seed, in the hope that these inferior stocks 

 might be eliminated : 



It is possible that some Meade cotton grown in areas contiguous to sliort-staple 

 cotton may be of inferior staple and may not be eliminated in the warehouses. 

 If spinners should get bales of mixed or inferior staple they will please notify 

 the warehouse from which the cotton came, or notify the secretary of the 

 Georgia Breeders' Association, at Athens, Ga. This information will be used 

 in checking against impure seed, and standardization will be accomplished the 

 more rapidly. 



2 The secretary of the Association is R. R. Childs, Athens, Ga. 



