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the first of November, while less than TO per cent of his Sea Island 
crop had matured at that date. 
EXPERIMENTS WITH MEADE COTTON IN 1917 AND 1918. 
During the 1918 season additional data were acquired on the 
relative earliness of the Meade compared with other varieties that 
showed this cotton to be not only much earlier than the Sea Island, 
but as early as any of the short-staple varieties now being grown in 
the Southeastern States. 
At the Bureau of Entomology station near Madison, Fla., in a 
district of heavy weevil infestation, tests were conducted under the 
direction of Mr. G. D. Smith with several varieties of cotton, in- 
cluding the Meade, King, Express, Webber, and others, besides 
several strains of Sea Island cotton that had been bred especially for 
earliness. Flower counts were made daily from June 11, the date 
of the first flower which appeared on that da} T in both the Meade 
and King rows, until" August 5, when flowering had practically 
ceased on all varieties. 
The results showed that the Meade variety was as early in produc- 
ing flowers as any of the short-staple varieties and much earlier than 
any of the long staples, including the early Sea Island strains. Mr. 
Smith also reported high yields for the Meade and superiority in 
both length and abundance of fiber over all the long staples, in- 
cluding the special Sea Island strains. 
At Brooksville, Fla., a count was made of the flowers produced 
each day from June 24 to July 3 on eight rows of Sea Island and 
eight rows of Meade, each 150 feet long. The Sea Island rows aver- 
aged 78.7 flowers and the Meade 153.3 flowers per row per day. The 
Sea Island yielded 10.3 pounds of seed cotton and the Meade 28.3 
pounds per row. 
Prof. Loy E. East, of the Georgia State College of Agriculture, ob- 
tained some very interesting data in 1917 and 1918 on the comparative 
yields of Sea Island and Meade cotton (9) . A review of the more im- 
portant data reported by Prof. East may be summarized as follows : 
The Meade cotton was planted along with 37 other varieties at the station 
in 1917 and ranked No. 1 when the total value of both seed and lint were con- 
sidered, on a basis of 2,039 pounds of seed cotton per acre, or 693 pounds of 
lint, worth $509.35, and 1,346 pounds of seed, containing 24.27 per cent of oil, 
making it worth $84.34 per ton, or $56.76 for the seed produced. The total value 
of the crop, therefore, \? as $566.11 per acre. 
A similar test, conducted in 1918 by Prof. Rast showed that this variety again 
ranked first among 38 varieties tested, the total yield of seed cotton being 1,604 
pounds, which gave 465 pounds of lint, valued at that time at 70 cents a pound. 
or $325.50. The 1,139 pounds of seed contained 23.13 per cent of oil, making 
it worth $81.31 per ton, or $46.30 per acre. The total value of the cotton and 
seed, therefore, was $371.80 per acre. 
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