A three-year experiment comparing several skip-row planting patterns was conducted with cotton (Gossypuim spp.) at the Tennessee Valley Substation at Belle Mina, AL. Interest was renewed greatly in skip-row patterns when the Payment-In-Kind (PIK) Program was in effect. The interest stemmed from the well known fact that outside or border rows of a field usually yield more than do interior rows. The purpose of this experiment was to quantify this effect on a per planted acre basis and on the basis of total land used. On a per planted acre basis, yields were increased from 29 to 62 percent by the skip-row patterns; however, when yield was calculated on the basis of total land used, yields were 12 to 46, less on the skip-row patterns.