UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
BULLETIN No. 526 
Contribution from the Bureau of Plant Industry 
WM. A. TAYLOR, Chief 
Washington, D. C. 
PROFESSIONAL PAPER 
August 28, 1918 
EXPERIMENTS WITH SINGLE-STALK COTTON 
CULTURE IN LOUISIANA, ARKANSAS 
AND NORTH CAROLINA 
By 
P. V. CARDON, Assistant Agronomist 
CONTENTS 
Page 
Introduction 1 
Localities Where Experiments Were 
Made 3 
Methods of Procedure 4 
Selection of Cooperators ..... 4 
Plan of the Experiments 5 
Thinning Single-Stalk Rows ... 5 
Recording the Yields 5 
Page 
6 
Results Obtained 
Yields of Seed Cotton 26 
Yield and Quality of Lint 27 
Lint Percentages 28 
Relative Abundance of Lint . . 28 
Grade and Length of Lint ... 29 
Summary 30 
WASHINGTON 
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 
1918 
