Table 6.  Lint Yield, Gin Turnout, and Fiber Quality of Late-Maturing Cotton Varieties
Grown in Dillon Co. at Minturn, SC, in 2008.  Late-Maturity Dryland OVT.  M. Jones.  
Lint Gin Fiber Fiber Fiber 
Variety   Yield Turnout Length Uniformity Strength Elongation Micronaire
lb/acre % in. % g/tex
BCSX 0727B2RF 1418 38.7 1.16 82.5 27.2 12.9 4.5
DPL 161B2RF 1411 36.6 1.25 84.5 29.2 11.6 4.1
BCSX 0721B2RF 1352 39.7 1.19 83.2 28.3 13.8 4.5
DPL 454BR 1277 38.2 1.15 83.4 26.9 12.6 4.0
ST 5458B2RF 1244 38.0 1.17 83.4 28.1 12.1 4.6
DPL 555BR 1243 40.3 1.17 82.7 26.7 11.6 4.4
BCSX 0614B2F 1215 34.8 1.21 83.4 27.9 12.5 4.2
ST 5599BR 1183 37.7 1.17 82.9 27.2 11.5 4.4
DPL 0935B2RF 1179 39.6 1.17 83.4 27.5 12.3 4.6
FM 1880B2RF 1177 35.1 1.22 83.0 28.3 11.6 4.1
PH 485WRF 1177 37.6 1.19 83.9 28.7 13.6 4.6
ST 5327B2RF 1162 38.8 1.21 83.6 29.9 12.2 4.5
DPL 164B2RF 1137 37.2 1.22 84.0 27.5 11.5 4.5
DPL 174RF 1129 39.3 1.22 83.7 26.9 12.9 4.4
LSD (0.05) 178 1.5 0.02 1.1 1.2 0.8 0.4
C.V. (%) 10.1 2.8 1.3 0.9 3.0 4.8 6.3
Trial Mean 1236 38.0 1.19 83.4 27.9 12.3 4.4
Bold numbers are not statistically different at the 0.05 level of probability.