16 BULLETIN 526, IT. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Table X shows a wide variation in yields from the two systems of 
culture. In the yields from the first picking, single-stalk culture led 
in 4 of the 10 instances. In 3 instances the yields were identical and 
in 3 other instances greater yields were obtained from the old-method 
rows. The total yield from the first picking was slightly (3 per cent) 
in favor of single-stalk culture. 
In the yields from the second picking, single-stalk culture led in 
only 3 of the 10 instances, while the old method led in 4. In 3 in- 
stances the yields were identical. It is remarkable that the yields 
throughout differed in about the same proportion. The total yield 
of the second picking, however, favored the old method of culture 
by 20 per cent, making an increase of 8 per cent in total yield for this 
method. 
Arkansas. 
Owing to the damage done by early spring floods, most of the experi- 
ments begun in Arkansas were abandoned. The only ones which 
promised any dependable results were located in Miller County, in 
the vicinity of Texarkana, and at Warren, in Bradley County. The 
latter experiment, however, was located in a pecan grove and the 
trees apparently so reduced the supply of moisture in the soil that 
when the drought of August was encountered the cotton plants were 
compelled to shed a large proportion of their squares. This damage, 
combined with apparent weevil damage, made the test practically 
without value. 
MILLER COUNTY. 
The experiments in Miller County were conducted by Messrs. D. K. 
Akin, J. E. Tanner, and W. B. Latta, the first named being located 
about 10 miles south of Texarkana, at Fouke, and the others being 
located in the immediate vicinity of Texarkana. Mr. R. M. Meade, 
of the Bureau of Plant Industry, visited these experimenters early in 
June and directed the thinning of the single-stalk rows. 
The Akin experiment. — Mr. D. R. Akin, of Fouke, planted Lone Star 
cotton on May 20, about 15 days later than usual. Unfortunately, 
only a small amount (12 pounds per acre) of seed was planted, and 
a relatively poor stand resulted. Wet weather occurred immediately 
after planting, and this was followed by drought, which caused the 
surface soil to bake. At the time of thinning the single-stalk rows 
it was observed that the plants were not standing thick enough to 
insure complete suppression of the vegetative branches, but enough 
had been suppressed to make the test worth carrying out. 
There were 28 rows in the experiment, 8 in which the two systems 
of culture were compared in alternate rows and 20 in which com- 
parisons were made in alternate blocks of 5 rows each. The plants 
in the old-method rows were spaced about 18 inches apart and those 
in the single-stalk rows about 8 inches, wherever the stand per- 
