FARM PRACTICE IN THE CULTIVATION OF COTTON 
11 
Cotton is always sown in drills and thinned. to a stand at the first 
or second cultivation. The rows range from 3 to 4 feet apart and the 
stalks are left one or two to the hill, with the hills from 12 to 18 inches 
apart in the row. Usually from 2 to 4 pecks of seed are planted per 
acre. More seed is usually planted per acre on clay soils which bake 
readily than on light sandy soils. Very little cotton is planted by 
Fig. 7.— A combined lister and planter, an im- 
plement used for planting cotton in parts of 
. Oklahoma and Texas, especially in those areas 
where dry weather prevails during the growing 
season. 
This same type of planter with 
Fig. 6.— A type of 1-horse cotton planter. 
hand, 1-horse 1-row planters 
being generally used (fig. 6). In 
some areas of Texas and Okla- 
homa the 2-horse 1-row planter 
is used, and quite often a lister 
is attached to the planter (fig. 7). 
a different attachment is used for planting corn. 
Details as to the time and methods of planting cotton will be found 
in Table VII. 
Table VII. — Tillage practices with cotton in nineteen regions surveyed, showing the 
dates and methods of planting. 
[The key letters under " Region surveyed" refer to the location of farms studied, as follows: A= Pemiscot 
County, Mo.; B=Mississippi Delta; C= Robeson County, N. C; D=Mecklenburg County, N. O; 
E= Barnwell County, S. C; F=Pike County, Ga.; G=Tift County, Ga.; H= Giles County, Tenn.; 
1= Bulloch County, Ga.; J=St. Francis County, Ark.; K= Ellis County, Tex.; L= Chambers County, 
Ala.; M= Johnston County, Okla.; N= Jefferson County, Fla.; 0= Lincoln Parish, La.; P= Lavaca 
County, Tex.; Q=Houstoh County, Tex.; R= Monroe County, Miss.; S= Bexar County, Tex.] 
*3 
Date. 
Farmers plant- 
ing a— 
Average dis- 
tance apart. 

bo 
c3 
< 
s 
<v 
m 
Planters used by 
farmers. 
SI 
oo bo 
Average. 
Range. 
T3 
to 
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O 
bib 
.5 
DO 
3 

S 
00 

2-horse. 
bo 
is 

3 

A 
B 
C 
Apr. 21 
Apr. 11 
Apr. 14 
Apr. 23 
Apr. 11 
Apr. 15 
Apr. 4 
Apr. 15 
Apr. 1 
Apr. 25 
Apr. 13 
Apr. 11 
Apr. 21 
Apr. 1 
Apr. 18 
Mar. 25 
Apr. 16 
.Apr. 15 
Mar. 25 
Apr. 10 to May 10 
Mar. 25 to Apr. 30 
Apr. 8 to Apr. 20 
P.ct. 
----- 
8 
P.ct. 
100 
84 
92 
100 
100 
84 
64 
80 
84 
96 
92 
100 
64 
92 
100 
100 
96 
96 
20 
P.ct. 
""s 
'"n 
"20 
""'46- 
Feet. 
31 
4 
4 
31 
4 
3| 
4 
3 
4 
3| 
3 
3| 
3J 
4 
4 
31 
31 
31 
31 
In. 
16 
17 
13 
121 
151 
13 
161 
13 
161' 
14 
13 
131 
151 
13 
14 
13 
121 
15 
18-1 
Sq.ft. 
5 
6 
4 
3.5 
5 
3.5 
5.5 
3.5 
5.5 
4.5 
3.5 
4 
4.5 
4 
4.5 
4 
3.5 
4.5 
5.5 
Peck. 
4 
4 
4 
4 
4 
5 
2.5 
5.5 
3 
5.5 
> 2.5 
5 
2.5 
4 
4 
5.5 
3 
4 
3 
P.ct. 
60 
96 
100 
100 
P.ct. 
40 
4 
P.ct. 
r» 
F, 
Mar. 15 to Apr. 30 
F 
Apr. 1 to May 1 
Mar. 15 to Apr. 20 
Mar. 10 to Apr. 30 
Mar. 15 to Apr. 15 
Apr. 1 to May 20 
Apr. 1 to May 15 
Mar. 25 to May 1 
Apr. 1 to June 8 
Mar. 1 to Apr. 15 
Apr. 1 to May 15 
Mar. 1 to May 1 
Mar. 30 to May 30 
Apr. 1 to May 1 
Mar. 1 to Apr. 15 
16 
28 
20 
4 
4 
8 
----- 
8 
4" 
4 
40 
100 
100 
100 
100 
100 
"ioo" 
64 
92 
100 
8 
92 
96 
G 
H 
T 
T 
K 
L 
64 
96 
M 
N 

4 
4 
32 
f4 
P 
Q 
R 
S 
'"4" 
92 
8 
4 
96 
a All planted with drill. 
b Three-horse 1-row planter. 
Hand planter. 
