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358. Program for the American cotton grower. — The 

 best steps for the American cotton grower to take in order 

 to meet any foreign competition that the future may 

 bring forth consist (1) in producing cotton by more inten- 

 sive methods, which lowers the cost of producing each 

 pound of lint, (2) in more largely employing machinery 

 in the cultivation and harvesting of this crop, and (3) in 

 improving the usual wasteful and slovenly method of 

 covering and handhng American bales. 



LABORATORY EXERCISES 



From the latest United States Census Reports on Agriculture, 

 students should calculate : — 



(a) The proportion of the total crop produced by their state ; 

 (6) The proportion of the crop of their state produced by their 

 county ; 



(c) A list of the ten counties in their state producing the great- 



est number of bales ; 



(d) The average yield per acre of lint cotton in the United 



States. 



(e) The average yield per acre of lint cotton in five selected 



counties in their state. 



Literature 



Btjrkett, C. W., and Poe, C. H. Cotton, pp. 13-74, 301-329. 



New York, 1906. 

 U. S. Census Bur. Latest Publications on Agriculture. 

 U. S. Census Bur. Buls. Nos. 100, 107 and later. 

 U. S. Dept. Agr., Oface Expr. Sta., Bui. No. 33, pp. 13-66, 266- 



270. 

 U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. of Statistics, Bui. No. 16 and later. 



