. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 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 hiUs 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.âa combined lister and planter, an im- plement used
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 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 hiUs 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.âa 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.âA 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 atta-chment is used for planting com. Details as to the time and methods of planting cotton will be found in Table VII. Table VII.âTillage 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. C; E= Barnwell County, S. C; F=Pike County, Ga.; G=Tift Coimty, Ga.; H= Giles County, Term.; 1= Bulloch County, Ga.; J=St. Francis Coimty, Ark.; K= Ellis County, Tex.; L= Chambers Coimty, Ala.; M= Johnston County, Okla.; N= Jefferson County, Fla.; 0= Lincoln Parish, La.; P= Lavaca County, Tex.; Q= Houston County, Tex.; R= Monroe County, Miss.; S= Bexar County, Tex.] 'â¢J Date. Farmers plant- Ulgaâ Average dis- tance apart. I-. ft i M a o tab 3 0 w i 2-horse. i i u A B r Apr. 21 Apr. 11 Apr. 14 Apr. 23 Apr. 11 Apr. 15 Apr. 4 Apr. 15 Apr. 1
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