Table  9.  Performance of entries in the Early Maturing Cotton Variety
Test grown on a Bosket very fine sandy loam at Stoneville, MS in
1995.





Lint
First
Lint
Micro-
Length
Unif.
Strength
Elon-
Seed
Variety
yield
Harvest
percent
naire
(UHM)
index
(HVI)
gation
index

lbs/A
--%--
--%--

--in.--

g/tex
--%--
g




Suregrow 501
1218
88.6
39.8
4.51
1.14
86.2
31.8
7.2
9.4
Stoneville 474
1195
88.6
40.9
4.65
1.10
82.8
28.7
6.8
9.5
Suregrow 125
1175
89.8
39.1
4.34
1.12
85.0
27.3
7.5
9.6
Stoneville 495
1174
88.0
37.6
4.76
1.14
83.5
28.4
6.1
10.0
Deltapine 20
1160
89.2
37.7
4.47
1.10
84.1
27.1
7.6
9.7
Hartz H1277
1138
88.7
37.6
4.46
1.08
83.0
26.5
7.0
9.8
Stoneville LA887
1121
85.5
39.0
4.14
1.13
83.6
30.9
7.2
10.2
Hartz H1220
1119
89.7
38.3
4.04
1.17
84.6
29.8
7.5
10.7
Hartz H1244
1118
90.2
39.1
3.86
1.12
83.4
30.3
7.2
10.2
DP/SG DES119
1113
88.8
38.3
4.55
1.10
83.9
29.0
7.3
9.1
Stoneville 132
1110
92.1
40.4
4.02
1.11
83.4
27.4
6.8
9.6
Deltapine 51
1105
86.9
37.6
4.80
1.12
83.7
25.4
6.8
9.8
Suregrow 404
1105
88.4
37.4
4.66
1.09
84.7
30.2
6.9
9.8
Deltapine 50
1104
88.2
35.9
4.76
1.12
84.1
28.2
6.9
10.6
Deltapine X0227
1103
88.6
37.1
4.14
1.07
83.2
31.3
6.8
9.3
Seed Source 9412
1097
88.8
38.6
4.47
1.08
84.0
25.6
7.5
9.1
Hartz H1215
1086
91.8
38.9
4.12
1.17
84.4
31.8
7.2
10.3
Deltapine 5409
1075
89.0
38.9
4.48
1.09
83.2
29.3
6.7
8.9
Olvey & Assoc. 44
1074
86.1
36.5
4.84
1.09
84.0
29.9
6.7
10.4
Hyperformer HS23
1070
88.7
36.5
3.81
1.10
83.3
27.3
6.2
9.7
Chembred 333
1058
87.2
36.7
4.29
1.11
83.6
27.8
6.0
9.6
Terra 207
1051
88.7
36.4
4.12
1.10
83.6
26.1
6.8
9.5
Olvey & Assoc. 13
1047
86.6
37.3
4.00
1.14
84.9
27.8
5.7
9.3
Hartz H1330
1013
90.2
37.3
4.15
1.12
83.9
28.1
6.6
9.4
Deltapine Acala 90
1004
85.1
38.5
4.47
1.08
83.0
31.9
5.9
8.9
Chembred 232
999
87.4
34.0
4.42
1.10
83.7
27.2
6.7
10.3
Seed Source 9501
997
87.1
36.4
3.99
1.12
83.7
30.5
6.2
8.8
Paymaster HS26
995
85.6
36.1
4.05
1.10
84.2
30.5
6.9
10.7
Acala 1517-88
949
86.7
36.5
4.00
1.13
83.2
33.0
5.7
9.8










Test mean
1089
88.3
37.7
4.32
1.11
83.9
28.9
6.8
9.7
LSD (0.05)
64
1.3
1.3
0.27
0.03
1.4
1.6
0.3
0.7
CV (%)
7.1
1.8
2.5
4.5
1.7
1.2
4.0
3.5
5.5
R-squared
0.60
0.80
0.81
0.79
0.72
0.46
0.83
0.89
0.63
Replications
8
8
3
3
3
3
3
3
3





Planted: April 27, Harvested:  Sept. 8 and Sept. 29.
Lint yields in bold type are not statistically different than the
highest yielding variety at the 5% probability level.  If LSD (0.05) is
given as "NS", means in that column are not statistically different at
P<0.05.