Table 4.   Measures of earliness1 of entries in the 1995 Mid-season
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




Olvey &
Assoc. 50
87.3
92.0
--
--
88.6
--
10.3
--
Olvey &
Assoc. 8
86.3
91.5
90.3
90.0
91.5
  94.7
11.0
11.0
Deltapine 50
86.6
91.4
89.9
90.7
90.2
  92.4
11.0
10.7
Terra 292
85.7
91.2
--
--
88.9
--
11.0
--
Terra 366
86.3
91.1
--
--
92.9
--
11.6
--
Stoneville
LA887
83.7
89.9
89.2
89.3
93.3
  97.2
11.9
11.6
Hyperformer
HS46
85.6
89.9
88.1
88.2
93.6
  98.1
12.5
12.3
Hyperformer
HY39
86.5
89.6
87.6
88.4
91.9
  95.9
12.1
12.1
SS9202
86.2
89.4
--
--
93.5
  99.7
12.6
12.6
Chembred 1233
83.3
88.9
87.6
87.9
92.0
  95.6
11.9
11.7
Hartz H1560
80.3
88.7
87.2
--
93.9
100.6
11.7
11.9
Terra C-40
83.3
88.7
--
--
93.4
--
12.1
--
Hyperformer
HS44
83.0
88.1
85.8
86.4
94.9
100.3
12.6
12.6
Deltapine
5415
81.1
87.2
84.5
84.8
94.5
  98.0
12.7
12.4
Deltapine
5690
83.3
86.7
--
--
95.1
--
12.9
--
Terra 302
78.0
86.4
--
--
92.7
--
12.9
--
Chembred 1135
84.3
84.6
--
--
91.7
--
11.0
--













Test mean
84.2
89.1
87.8
88.2
92.5
 
97.0
11.9
11.8
CV (%)
  2.2
  3.2
  1.9
  1.8
  1.8
  
2.4
 
6.5
  3.4
R-squared
0.70
0.80
0.89
0.87
0.70
 
0.93
0.80
 0.91
LSD (0.05)
  1.6
  4.0
  1.8
  1.4
  2.9
  
3.3
 
1.4
  0.6
Replications
    8
   --
   --
   --
   --
    --
   --
   --
Locations
    1
    3
     5
    7
     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.