. Cotton: its uses, varieties, fibre structure, cultivation, and preparation for the market and as an article of commerce, also the manufacture of cotton seed oil, cotton seed meal and fertilizers, with especial reference to cotton growing, ginning, and oil pressing in the United States. Cotton; Cotton growing. CHAl'. ],] OTIIKR COTTONS. iO its journey ou the backs of camels. The cotton is about one inch in lengtli, is of good color and grade, and somewhat rough. Tlie amount of cotton raised in Japan is comparatively unimportant, as that country imports more cotton than she grows. Japanese cot
. Cotton: its uses, varieties, fibre structure, cultivation, and preparation for the market and as an article of commerce, also the manufacture of cotton seed oil, cotton seed meal and fertilizers, with especial reference to cotton growing, ginning, and oil pressing in the United States. Cotton; Cotton growing. CHAl'. ],] OTIIKR COTTONS. iO its journey ou the backs of camels. The cotton is about one inch in lengtli, is of good color and grade, and somewhat rough. Tlie amount of cotton raised in Japan is comparatively unimportant, as that country imports more cotton than she grows. Japanese cotton is usually less than three-fourths of an incli in length of staple, and somewhat resembles Chinese cotton in its cleanliness. In the Island of Java a small quantity of a very short, dirty cotton is raised, suited for numbers 4s and 6s yarns, of a. Fig .S7. Tinnivelly Cotton. Longitudinal view to scale lo'oo i'^ch between parallel lines. coarse, rough staple about three-eighths of an inch to five- eighths of an inch in length, and one of the shortest cottons grown. The Phillipine Islands cotton is almost one inch long, smooth and of a good color. In Australia there is a small (juantity of cotton raised in tlie Clarence river district and in Queensland, which is said to be of good staple and clean, while in the Fiji Islands in Aus- tralasia, and also in the Tahiti Islands, a fairly good grade of Sea Island cotton is raised, of a simihir or rather Ijetter grade. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Brooks, Christopher Parkinson, 1866-1909. New York, Spon & Chamberlain; London, E. & F. N. Spon, limited; [etc. , etc. ]
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