MEADE COTTON" REPLACING SEA ISLAND. 5 
cured, and in 1917 the experimental plantings were extended 
throughout the Sea Island district of Georgia in order to ascertain 
the behavior of this cotton under boll-weevil conditions in compari- 
son with that of the Sea Island type. That these preliminary plant- 
ings showed additional promise for the variety is shown by the 
results obtained. 
At Thomasville, Ga., under conditions of extreme boll-weevil in- 
festation, 1 acre of Sea Island and Meade cotton was planted in alter- 
nate blocks of four rows. The Meade yielded at the rate of 1,499 
pounds of seed cotton per acre and the Sea Island at 501 pounds. 
At Valdosta. Ga., only small plantings were made to ascertain the 
comparative earliness of the two types. By September 13 the Meade 
test rows had yielded 230 pounds of seed cotton, but it was not until 
September 28 that 117 pounds of seed cotton were secured from the 
Sea Island rows. In addition to the difference in earliness and yield 
shown in this test, Table 1 presents the results obtained in a compari- 
son of Meade and Sea Island bolls. 
Table 1. — Comparison of Meade and Sea Island bolls grown in alternate roics 
at Valdosta, Ga., in 1917. 
Variety. 
Weight of 10 4- 
locked b oils 
(grams). 
Percent- 
age of 
lint. 
Lint 
Number of 4-locked 
bolls to— 
Weight 
of seed 
from 
Total. 
Lint 
only. 
index. 
Pound 
of seed 
cotton. 
Pound 
of fiber. 
500- 
pound 
bale. 
bale of 
cotton 
(pounds). 
Meade 
65.70 
35.75 
17.6 
10.9 
26.8 
30.7 
5.45 
4.93 
69 
126 
257 
412 
128,500 1,365 
206, 000 
Sea, Island 
This experiment shows that it required 57 more bolls of Sea Island 
than of Meade cotton to make a pound of seed cotton, 155 more bolls of 
Sea Island to make a pound of fiber, and 77,500 more bolls of Sea 
Island to make a 500-pound bale. (PI. III.) 
While the ratio of fiber to seed in the Sea Island was 30.7 per cent 
and in the Meade 26.8, the actual weight of the fiber from 10 four- 
locked bolls of each was much greater for the Meade on account of the 
larger size of the Meade seed. 
In addition to these advantages of the Meade over the Sea Island, it 
should be remembered that a large percentage of the Sea Island bolls 
have only three locks, while most of the Meade bolls have four locks 
and a fair percentage have five locks. 
At Statesboro, Ga., 5 bushels of Meade seed were used to plant a 
block of 8 acres. The cooperator was a prominent Sea Island cotton 
grower, producing that year some 40 bales of this fiber. The 8 acres 
of Meade cotton produced 6 bales of fiber, and both the Sea Island 
and Meade crops were ginned on the same gin and baled in the same 
