Sea Island And Meade Cotton In The Southeastern States

Author : Guy Stanley Meloy
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780260582263
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book Meade Cotton, an Upland Long-Staple Variety Replacing Sea Island (Classic Reprint) written by Guy Stanley Meloy and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-19 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Meade Cotton, an Upland Long-Staple Variety Replacing Sea Island The new method of culture is based upon the fact that the cotton plant has two kinds of branches, the vegetative branches, usually called wood limbs in the Southeastern States, and the fruiting branches that bear the flowers and fruits. The wood limbs are like the central stalk, bearing no bolls directly, the bolls being borne on fruiting branches which are later than those of the main stalk. By chopping the cotton a little later and leaving the. Plants closer to gether in the rows the wood limbs are suppressed, thus allowing more plants to stand in the rows without crowding and allowing more fruiting branches to develop and mature an early crop (4) Grow ers of Meade cotton will be interested in the following summary (12 of the single-stalk method and the results that are being obtained. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.