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The larger part of the cotton crop of the United States falls under the 

 following grades: strict good middling, good middling, strict middling 

 and middling. Storms and early frost increase the quantity in the lower 

 grades. 



The diseases and insect enemies of cotton are discussed in Part II 

 of this book. 



REFERENCES 



"Prom Cotton Field to Cotton Mill." Thompson. 

 "Hemp." Boyce. 

 " Cotton. '■' Burkett and Poe. 

 "Southern Field Corps." Duggar. 



Alabama Tuskegee Station Bulletin 26. "A New and Prolific Variety of Cotton." 

 Alabama Tuskegee Station Circular 23. " Boll Weevil Control by Cotton Stalk De- 

 struction." 

 Alabama Experiment Station Bulletin 189. "Wilt Resistant Varieties of Cotton." 

 Georgia Station Bulletin 113. "Variety Work with Corn and Cotton." 

 Mississippi Station Bulletin 169. " Cotton Experiments 1914." 

 Mississippi Station Bulletin 173. "Cotton Experiments." 



North Carolina Station Bulletin 231. "Report on Variety Tests of Cotton for 1914." 

 South Carolina Station Bulletin 185. " Cotton — Varieties and Limiting Factor Tests." 

 U. S. Dept. of Agriculture ; 



Bulletin 38. "Egyptian Cotton Seed Selection." 



Bulletin 62. " Tests of the Waste, Tensil Strength and Bleaching Qualities of 

 the Different Grades of Cotton as Standardized by the United States Govern- 

 ment." 

 Bulletin 121. " Spinning Tests of Up-land Long-staple Cottons.'' 

 Bulletin 146. "Economic Conditions in the Sea Island Cotton Industry." 

 Bulletin 216. "Cotton Warehouses: Storage Facilities Now Available in the 



South." 

 Bulletin 279. " Single Stalk Cotton Culture at San Antonio." 

 Bulletin 288. " Custom Ginning as a Factor in Cotton-seed Deterioration." 

 Bulletin 311. " The Handling and Marketing of the Arizona Egyptian Cotton 



of the Salt River Valley . ' ' 

 Bulletin 332. " Community Production of Egyptian Cotton in the United 



States." 

 Bulletin 382. " Cotton Boll- Weevil Control." 

 Bulletin 375. " Disadvantages of Selling Cotton in the Seed." 

 U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry: 



Circular 26. "Egyptian Cotton in Southwestern U. S." 

 Circular 57. "Cultivation of Hemp in U. S." 

 Circular 123. " Production of Long-Staple Cotton." 

 Farmers' Bulletins, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture: 

 302. " Sea Island Cotton." 



314. " Method of Breeding Early Cotton to Escape Boll-Weevil." 

 326. " Building up a Run-Do wn Cotton Plantation " 

 364. " A Profitable Cotton Farm." 

 501. "Cotton Improvement Under Weevil Conditions." 

 577. "Growing Egyptian Cotton in the Salt River Valley, Arizona." 

 591. "The Classification and Grading of Cotton." 

 601. " A New System of Cotton Culture and Its Application." 



