Table 3.  Measures of earliness1 of entries in the 1995 Early Maturing
Cotton Variety Test at various
               Mississippi Delta locations in 1995 and averaged across
locations for 1994-95 and 1993-95.

Percent first harvest
NAWB5
NACB




Variety
Stoneville
1995
1994-95
1993-95
1995
1994-95
1995
1994-95

------------------------%---------------------
  days after
planting
 nodes




Stoneville 132
92.1
93.7
94.7
92.9
87.3
86.3
  9.6
  8.9
Hartz H1215
91.8
93.0
93.5
91.9
91.1
90.9
  9.8
  9.6
Hartz H1244
90.2
93.0
93.2
91.1
91.9
90.9
10.6
10.3
Suregrow 125
89.8
92.9
92.7
91.3
89.9
89.1
10.3
10.3
Hartz H1220
89.7
92.8
93.2
90.4
92.0
93.8
11.1
10.8
Stoneville 474
88.6
92.7
91.8
--
90.0
93.0
11.2
11.2
Suregrow 501
88.6
92.6
92.2
90.7
88.6
88.4
11.2
11.1
Hartz H1277
88.7
92.6
--
--
89.5
--
11.0
--
Hartz H1330
90.2
92.5
93.0
92.4
91.1
91.9
11.1
10.7
Terra 207
88.7
92.4
--
--
88.2
--
  9.8
--
Deltapine 5409
89.0
92.2
91.7
--
92.7
95.1
11.7
11.4
Suregrow 404
88.4
92.1
92.2
90.7
89.9
88.1
10.5
10.2
Deltapine X0227
88.6
92.1
--
--
90.5
--
10.2
--
Seed Source
9412
88.8
92.1
--
--
91.7
--
11.5
--
Deltapine 50
88.2
91.9
91.4
91.3
91.2
91.0
11.0
10.9
Chembred 232
87.4
91.8
92.0
--
90.1
89.4
10.7
10.5
Stoneville 495
88.0
91.7
91.3
--
90.5
91.1
11.4
11.2
Hyperformer
HS23
88.7
91.7
92.2
91.2
90.0
90.9
10.7
10.4
Deltapine 20
89.2
91.7
91.4
90.6
90.6
90.6
11.7
11.4
DP/SG DES119
88.8
91.7
91.7
90.4
89.3
88.7
10.5
10.2
Olvey & Assoc.
13
86.6
91.2
--
--
88.5
--
  9.8
--
Olvey & Assoc.
44
86.1
90.9
90.9
--
86.1
86.6
  9.6
  9.4
Deltapine 51
86.9
90.5
90.0
89.4
91.5
93.0
12.2
12.1
Chembred 333
87.2
90.4
90.6
90.2
92.2
92.1
11.4
11.3
Stoneville
LA887
85.5
90.3
90.4
89.6
92.8
96.2
11.7
11.8
SS9511
87.1
90.0
--
--
93.0
--
12.8
--
Acala 1517-88
86.7
--
--
--
91.3
--
--
--
Paymaster 26
85.6
--
--
--
92.6
--
--
--
Deltapine Acala
90
85.1
--
--
--
97.5
--
--
--









Test mean
88.3
91.9
92.0
90.9
90.4
90.9
10.9
10.7
CV (%)
  1.8
  1.2
  1.4
  1.8
  1.7
  2.9
  7.0
  5.5
R-Squared
0.80
0.90
0.92
0.85
0.70
0.62
0.80
0.83
LSD (0.05)
  1.3
  1.5
  1.3
  1.3
  2.6
  3.4
  1.3
  0.8
Replications
     8
   --
   --
   --
   --
   --
   --
   --
Locations
     1
    
3
     5
     8
     2
     3
     2
    
3

1Percent first harvest from Stoneville, Tunica, and Elizabeth in 1995,
from Stoneville and Sumner in 1994, and from Stoneville and Tunica in
1993.  Higher values indicate earlier maturity.  NAWB5 = Days from
planting until uppermost first position white bloom is 5 nodes from
the terminal; data from Stoneville in 1994 and 1995, and Tunica in
1995.  Lower values indicate earlier maturity.  NACB = Nodes from
uppermost first position cracked boll to terminal; data collected 10
to 21 days before defoliation; data from Stoneville in 1994 and 1995,
and Tunica in 1995.  Lower values indicate earlier maturity.
Values in bold type indicate varieties that are not statistically
later than the earliest maturing variety according to each measure of
maturity.