. Brazilian cotton; being the report of the journey of the International cotton mission through the cotton states of São Paulo, Minas Geraes, Bahia, Alagôas, Sergipe, Pernambuco, Parahyba, Rio Grande do Norte. Cotton growing. SAO PAULO 81. Cotton Field on the Fazenda " Salto Grande " of Rawlinson, Miiller & Co., Carioba, Villa Americana for this work they get paid a daily wage. A man able to work the disc-cultivator gets 5 milreis per day. The company has some £3,000 invested in ploughs and other agricultural machinery. Practically all the cotton raised on the estate is used in t
. Brazilian cotton; being the report of the journey of the International cotton mission through the cotton states of São Paulo, Minas Geraes, Bahia, Alagôas, Sergipe, Pernambuco, Parahyba, Rio Grande do Norte. Cotton growing. SAO PAULO 81. Cotton Field on the Fazenda " Salto Grande " of Rawlinson, Miiller & Co., Carioba, Villa Americana for this work they get paid a daily wage. A man able to work the disc-cultivator gets 5 milreis per day. The company has some £3,000 invested in ploughs and other agricultural machinery. Practically all the cotton raised on the estate is used in the mill of the company, where 18's is the average count, though exceptionally up to 60's has been spun from cotton raised on the estate. The cotton is, of course, by far too good for such low counts as 18's. Planting takes place middle of November, and as only early maturing kinds of cotton are used picking begins about middle of April. This part of the country gets sometimes frost in June. The manager told me that if the price of seed cotton is 7 $000 per 15 kilos it pays as well as any crop. This plantation shoivs what can be done throughout Sao Paulo, the land does not seem as fertile as the Sorocabana or the north-western zone. The rent paid in adjoining parts is 200 milreis per " ; The present purchase price of land was stated to be one conto per alqueire, but no doubt when buying a large estate considerable reduc- tions can be obtained. Our next visit was to Sao Carlos, 800 metres high, and then to Sampaio Vidal, named after the family of the " Diputado " who accompanied us. The soil here begins to be of that fertile red earth, known as " terra roxa," excellent for coffee cultivation ; it looks almost like finely ground coffee ; it produces a dust which penetrates through everything, even to the works of the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for reada
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