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BULLETIN 659, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGBICULTUBE. 
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 
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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. 
