A cotton phenotype characterized by short fruiting branches (stovepipe) was compared with a commercial variety commonly grown on the Texas High Plains for foreign matter content of seed cotton and the incidence of barky grades in lint. The stick content was reduced in the stovepipe phenotype by 43% for cottons grown under both dryland and irrigated conditions. The number of samples that were graded barky was significantly reduced in the same phenotype for the dryland production. Lint yield was no different for the two plant types grown under dryland production but the stovepipe phenotype produced 50% less cotton than the commercial variety under irrigated production practices. Quality factors of the lint for the stovepipe cotton were approximately the same as that of the commercial variety.