. Field crops for the cotton-belt. Agriculture. COTTON VARIETIES 47 are rather tall and sl'ender with few or no priniary limbs. The bolls are small to medium, in size with 3 to 5 locules, and the lint is borne in rather >closely miatted locks. It is claimed that a few varieties of this group have been produced by cross- ing upland and Sea Island cotton. However, in most cases the varieties have been pro- duced by straight selection. Several varieties, of which Griffin and Colum- bia are examples, have been devel- oped from the big- boll group. The upland Jong-staple varie- ties are best ada
. Field crops for the cotton-belt. Agriculture. COTTON VARIETIES 47 are rather tall and sl'ender with few or no priniary limbs. The bolls are small to medium, in size with 3 to 5 locules, and the lint is borne in rather >closely miatted locks. It is claimed that a few varieties of this group have been produced by cross- ing upland and Sea Island cotton. However, in most cases the varieties have been pro- duced by straight selection. Several varieties, of which Griffin and Colum- bia are examples, have been devel- oped from the big- boll group. The upland Jong-staple varie- ties are best adapted to fertile river bottom soils. They are grown rather extensively along the Red River in Arkansas and Texas, and along the Mississippi in Mississippi and Louisiana. The yield is often lower than that obtained from the upland varieties but the greater value of the lint usually more than offsets the difference in yield. -Examples of the long-staple group are Grifiin,. Fig. 13. — Plant of the Allen variety of cotton representing the upland long-staple Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Morgan, James Oscar. New York, The Macmillan company
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