The Production Per Acre Record of 
STONEVILLE 2-B 
As reported by the Experiment Stations and Agron¬ 
omy Departments of ten States in 1935-X6-37. 
These Records Prove it to be 
THE BEST OF ALL COTTONS FOR ONE 
VARIETY COMMUNITIES 
MISSISSIPPI 
1 Stoneville 2-B was first officially tested in 
I 4 /OD the Second or New and Miscellaneous Varie¬ 
ty and the Wilt Tests at the Delta Branch 
Experiment Station at Stoneville. Results of these 
tests were never published, but the un-official record 
shows the 2-B in first rank, with the highest money 
value for seed and lint per acre in the New Varieties 
test in a list of sixty-six varieties. Tliis list includes 
most of the best strains developed by the seven lar¬ 
gest and best known cotton breeders East of Texas. 
In the Wilt Variety Test, it was second in rank 
in a list of forty highly rated wilt resistant varieties. 
The first ranking strain, not a commercial variety, 
was only 42 cents higher than 2-B. 
Its average staple length for the two tests was 
34/32, and lint percentage 34.79%. 
1 ^ tested at all of the six Experimental 
lyou stations, making an average in seven tests 
of $4.45 per acre more than the second rank¬ 
ing variety. At the Stoneville Station, in the New 
Variety Test, it had the highest money value of 
seed and lint per acre of all varieties with less than 
1 - 1/8 staple, and was exceeded in lint yield by only 
two very short varieties, in a list of sixty-one varie¬ 
ties. . 
Its average staple length for the seven tests was 
37.3/32, and lint percentage 34-8%. 
1 again highest in money value aver- 
X*7«J 4 jige, in sixteen official tests in the State. 
For the second time in three years, it made 
first rank in the New Varieties Test at Stoneville, 
in a list of 52 highly competitive and well known 
strains. In the Standard Commercial Varieties Test, 
it was fourth, being outranked by three long staple 
Varieties. 
Its average staple length for the sixteen tests was 
30.55/32 and lint percentage 36.31%. 
STONEVILLE 2-B PRODUCED AN AVERAGE 
OF $3.84 PER ACRE MORE THAN THE SECOND 
BEST VARIETY IN SIXTY TESTS BY FIVE 
STATES THE LAST TWO YEARS. 
YOU GROW COTTON TO MAKE MONEY — SE¬ 
LECT THE VARIETY THAT MAKES THE MOST 
MONEY. 
