Table 26. Performance of 26 varieties in the Early Maturing Cotton Variety Test planted
on a Marietta silt loam soil at Verona, MS in 1994.*
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Lint First Micron- Length Unif. Strength Elon- Lint Boll
Variety name Yield Harvest aire (UHM) index (HVI) gation Faction wt.
lbs/A in. % g/tex % --g--
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Hartz 1220 1063 81 5.00 1.18 86.1 29.1 8.4 40.2 6.36
Hartz 1244 985 82 5.05 1.12 84.9 29.6 8.0 42.1 6.13
Hartz 1215 914 79 5.05 1.18 87.5 28.5 8.4 40.8 5.99
Deltapine DP 5409 899 82 4.85 1.15 83.7 30.4 7.2 40.8 5.18
Stoneville 132 881 82 4.65 1.15 85.1 25.6 7.5 41.4 6.31
Terra 292 877 78 4.75 1.16 84.1 28.0 7.6 38.3 5.67
Germain's GC-210 874 76 4.85 1.16 84.2 27.6 8.2 40.9 5.28
Suregrow 125 859 81 5.00 1.17 84.8 27.2 8.1 41.5 5.87
Hartz 1330 857 83 4.70 1.16 85.7 30.9 7.4 39.7 6.15
Suregrow 501 847 71 4.90 1.16 86.6 33.3 7.4 42.0 5.01
Chembred 232 829 78 4.80 1.16 84.7 27.4 7.5 37.4 5.78
Chembred 333 809 76 4.70 1.17 85.3 28.6 7.1 39.4 6.40
Chembred 830 799 80 4.95 1.13 85.2 30.4 7.3 37.9 6.54
Deltapine 50 785 72 4.90 1.19 85.8 28.2 7.5 37.6 5.71
Stoneville 474 785 67 5.25 1.14 85.1 29.7 7.2 44.4 5.99
Deltapine 51 761 69 4.80 1.20 84.8 27.1 7.4 39.3 6.06
DP/SG DES 119 758 80 5.20 1.13 85.0 30.1 7.8 40.2 4.58
Terra 207 758 80 4.80 1.16 85.3 28.7 7.5 39.2 5.73
Terra 366 740 76 4.80 1.19 84.2 27.2 7.1 38.6 5.65
Hartz 1380 737 77 4.60 1.17 85.0 27.3 7.1 41.0 5.93
Hyperformer HS-23 730 79 4.75 1.14 86.5 28.6 6.3 40.3 5.77
Terra 302 719 65 4.90 1.14 85.5 27.5 7.1 40.1 5.43
Germain's GC-9042 718 75 4.95 1.18 86.2 29.6 7.8 41.5 6.10
Suregrow 223 700 75 5.25 1.21 86.5 32.8 7.6 42.5 5.58
Suregrow 404 683 79 5.25 1.16 86.0 31.8 7.5 39.5 5.50
Stoneville LA887 658 69 5.05 1.16 86.3 29.3 7.4 38.7 7.17
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GRAND MEAN 809 77 4.91 1.16 85.4 29.0 7.5 40.2 5.84
LSD (0.05) 138 4 0.25 0.03 NS 2.0 0.6 2.4 0.71
CV (%) 17.9 5.7 3.0 1.4 1.6 4.1 4.3 3.5 7.1
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Planted on May 9; Harvested on October 6.
* Lint yield data from 6 replications; fiber, boll and seed data from hand-harvested
100-boll samples taken from 2 replications.
Stoneville LA 887 included in this test as a mid-season check variety.