4 BULLETIN 526, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Table I. — List of localities where experiments in single-stalk cotton culture were 
conducted in 1915, showing cooperators therein. 
State and parish or county. 
Farmer. 
Address. 
County agent. 
Louisiana: 
Pointe Coupee 
Do 
Alfred Robillard 
Killarney Plantation 
do 
Do. 
T. I. Watson. 
Do 
Do. 
Do 
R. C. Webb 
Delta Point 
Do. 
Bossier 
E. S. Burt. 
Do 
W. B. Wilbourn 
C. C. Herndon... 
do 
Shreveport ; 
Gilliam 
Do. 
Caddo 
A. J. Scott. 
Do 
Do. 
Jackson * 
L. M. Calhoun, jr 
Gilbert 
L. M. Calhoun. 
Arkansas: 
Miller 
D. R. Akin 
Fouke 
T. F. Lueker. 
Do 
,T, TC, Tanner. 
Texarkana 
do 
Do. 
Do 
W. B. Latta.. 
Do. 
North Carolina: 
Edgecombe 
W. K. Benson 
Battleboro 
Whitakers 
Do 
Do. 
Do 
W. R. Felton.. 
Do. 
Sampson 
H. D. Sloan 
MacD. Davis. 
Do 
W.I.Wright 
L. F. Green 
do 
do.... 
Do. 
Do 
Do. 
Duplin 
Warsaw 
D. J. Middleton. 
Craven 
J. L. Roper 
Riverdale 
J. W. Sears. 
Do 
B.C. Peterson 
Vanceboro. 
Do. 
i Three experiments were conducted at this point. When the farms were visited on August 13, 1915, 
the conditions all appeared favorable to single-stalk culture. However, repeated requests have failed to 
bring any report of the final results obtained, so these experiments can not be included herein. 
In the case of some of the farmers listed in the table, as will be 
pointed out later, relatively poor stands were obtained, for which 
certain allowances must be made. In most of the cases in which the 
stands were uniformly good, a fairly adequate comparison of methods 
was possible; but in others, as will be shown, thinning certainly was 
done too late to secure the best results, and in some instances the 
crop may have been injured in this way. 
METHODS OF PROCEDURE. 
SELECTION OF COOPERATORS. 
The county agents selected from among the farmers in their respective 
counties (or parishes) a few of those who were most interested and 
gave evidence of being able to carry out instructions. They are not 
necessarily the best farmers in their respective counties, but they are 
representative of the better farmers. Their farms are so distributed 
as to afford conditions fairly typical of those over a large part of 
each State, except in the case of Arkansas, where flood damage re- 
sulted in the abandonment of most of the experiments that were begun. 
Although the experiments in North Carolina were confined to the 
eastern district, a large part of the total cotton-growing acreage of 
the State is represented. In Louisiana, experiments were conducted 
in sections typical of the larger areas of the State where cotton is 
grown. 
