. Elementary principles of agriculture; a text book for the common schools. Fig. 212. Cotton stalk with vigorous vegetative branches and short determinatefruiting branches. Type of late slow fruiting stalks. inches long. The long staple varieties having fibers IMto 13^2 inches long are successful only on rich soil in humidregions. Sea Island Cotton, which is readily distinguishedby its yellow blossoms, came originally from the WestIndies. It has silky fibers 13/2 to 2 inches long and issuccessfully cultivated in just a few locahties near thecoast in South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. Beside
. Elementary principles of agriculture; a text book for the common schools. Fig. 212. Cotton stalk with vigorous vegetative branches and short determinatefruiting branches. Type of late slow fruiting stalks. inches long. The long staple varieties having fibers IMto 13^2 inches long are successful only on rich soil in humidregions. Sea Island Cotton, which is readily distinguishedby its yellow blossoms, came originally from the WestIndies. It has silky fibers 13/2 to 2 inches long and issuccessfully cultivated in just a few locahties near thecoast in South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. Besides Cotton 339 the American types a form of Egyptian cotton is grownto a limited extent in California and Arizona. 498. Cultivation. Bearing in mind the continuousgrowing habit of the cotton plant, and the relation of this. Fig. 213. Cotton stalk with vigorous fruiting branches and one slow growingvegetative branch. Type of early, rapid continuous fruiting stalk. Note thatthe first fruiting branches are low and continuous fruiting. to fruiting, it is plain that the first consideration shouldbe to provide the conditions that make growth continuousand normal throughout the growing season. Aside from thenatural richness of the soil, the regularity of the supplyof moisture is most important. {% 105). While cottonis classed as a drouth resisting crop, it is well to remember 340 Elementary Principles of Agriculture that a liberal amount of moisture is essential for con-tinuous fruiting and therefore for large yields. 499. The Light Relation of the fruiting branches isprobably the second most important feature to be con-sidered in caring for a cotton crop. Cotton plants dobest in warm, sunshiny weather. The normal healthygrowth of the fruiting branches is especially should never be so thick tha
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