. Bulletin. 1901-13. Agriculture; Agriculture. 30 VARIETIES OF AMERICAN UPLAND COTTON. Plant very similar to Wyche, large and .stocky in growth; leaves large, fruiting branches usually long jointed, but some plants showing a trace of semicluster type and having shorter and irregularly jointed fruiting branches; bolls very large; linl of good length; seeds very large, fuzzy, gray. Bolls per pound, 44; seeds per pound, 2,590; average length of lint, mm. (1 inch), varying from 23 to 29 nun.; strength of single fibers, gms.; per cent of lint, Barmy Brown. Big-Boll Stormproof Group.
. Bulletin. 1901-13. Agriculture; Agriculture. 30 VARIETIES OF AMERICAN UPLAND COTTON. Plant very similar to Wyche, large and .stocky in growth; leaves large, fruiting branches usually long jointed, but some plants showing a trace of semicluster type and having shorter and irregularly jointed fruiting branches; bolls very large; linl of good length; seeds very large, fuzzy, gray. Bolls per pound, 44; seeds per pound, 2,590; average length of lint, mm. (1 inch), varying from 23 to 29 nun.; strength of single fibers, gms.; per cent of lint, Barmy Brown. Big-Boll Stormproof Group. Arkansas: Drew County. A local variety developed, about, 1897, by selection, by Banny Brown, of Lacey, Ark. Barfield. Cluster Group. A local variety reported only from Kemper County, Miss., and Anson County, N. C. This cotton was introduced by Thomas Barfield, of Sucarnoochee, Miss., many years ago, and it is said that he obtained the seed in the West Indies. It was taken to Cedar- hill, N. C, by Dr. S. B. Carpenter, who has kept the seed pure. Barfield has become a popular variety in Anson County, being "especially suited to the loamy clay soil of the Piedmont section. ". Fig. 6.—Map of the cotton-growing States, showingthe distribution of Bass cotton in cultivation, as reported in 1907. The plant is a true cluster cotton, with i or 2 lon^ limbs and with fruiting branches reduced to mere spurs; bolls of medium size, closely clustered together; seeds small, fuzzy, white; per cent of lint, about 35. In Mississippi the Barfield has become a "bender" cotton, but in North Carolina the lint is of medium length. Barnes. Peterkin Group. (Also known as Adcock.) Alabama Bulletin 140. Bulletin 33, Office of Experiment Stations, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. Reported only from Leake County, Miss., and said to be the same as Adcock, a local varietv grown in the same county. Bolls of "ood size, cotton easy to pick and wasting badly during storms; lint about three-fo
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