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in yield, and these averages are not reliable, on account of the small 

 number of farms producing other than Mebane's Triumph. 



The better farmers of the section follow a fairly uniform prac- 

 tice as to method of obtaining cotton seed for planting. They hold 

 the opinion that cotton will "run out" or mix varieties in three or 

 four years. To overcome this difficulty many buy pure seed every 

 two or three years direct from the breeders of the respective varieties 

 or from other sources furnishing pure seed. These farmers secure 

 from 10 to 30 bushels each at a cost of from $1.50 to $2.50 per 

 bushel. The second or heaviest picking of the cotton produced from 

 this seed is ginned separately and the seed saved for the larger part 



Fig. 12. — Mebane Triumph Cotton, thp variety grown most extensively in the region. 



Big bolls, easily picked. 



of the planting of the following year. If the second year's crop 

 remains fairly true to variety, sufficient seed may be saved for a 

 third year's planting. 



VARIETIES OF CORN. 



Records of varieties of corn were obtained from 78 farms. Thirty- 

 seven farms produce some strain of yellow dent, 12 produce Bloody 

 Butcher, and 10 produce Strawberry corn. On 19 farms "mixed" 

 corn was reported. It is indicated that Strawberry corn gives 

 slightly the best yields (29 bushels), but there is not a sufficient 

 number of farms having the different varieties to determine reliable 

 averages on this point. 



