. India rubber world. sed by the fact that his fieldswill soon have to pass through the ordeal of the boll weevil in-vasion. In view of the length of time required to mature S. , it is feared that the ravages of the insect will be disas-trous and many farmers will abandon the cultivation of the slowgrowing S. 1. variety, planting in its stead early maturing Up-land cotton. Outside of the United Stales some S. I. cotton is grown inthe West Indies, on the Peruvian coast and in Tahiti. To bringout the chief features of S. 1. cotton—length and silkiness of thefibre—it has to be grown near
. India rubber world. sed by the fact that his fieldswill soon have to pass through the ordeal of the boll weevil in-vasion. In view of the length of time required to mature S. , it is feared that the ravages of the insect will be disas-trous and many farmers will abandon the cultivation of the slowgrowing S. 1. variety, planting in its stead early maturing Up-land cotton. Outside of the United Stales some S. I. cotton is grown inthe West Indies, on the Peruvian coast and in Tahiti. To bringout the chief features of S. 1. cotton—length and silkiness of thefibre—it has to be grown near the sea. If grown inland thesecharacteristics soon disajipear and it becomes necessary to ob-tain fresh planting seed from South Carolina. .\MERIC.\N LONG STAPLE COTTON. Lntil the advent of the boll weevil this variety was chiefiyproduced from selected seed in a strip of country about 75 mileswide and 200 miles long lying in the Mississippi Valley, and Vicksburg. Since the appearance of this insect. Cof^yriglit l>y Vniicrtii^cd ^ Vndcf7vood, .V. }. Cotton PirKixc. in the Soith. many farmers have abandoned the cultivation of this longstaple cotton, which requires a long time to mature and is thusspecially exposed to its devastating attacks. The United StatesGovernment is making praiseworthy efforts to introducetypes of prolific big boll cotton of \% to 1^ inch staple andpossessing the essential early maturity. Such long staple .Ameri-can cottons are now grown in California and Arizona, in variouslocalities of , in the Red River Valley, in sections of Ala-bama and also in South Carolina. Very probably with the pass-ing of the boll weevil scare in Mississippi, the Delta will alsorevert to the growing of long staple varieties when prices be-come tempting again. It is difficult to estimate the total produc-tion of long staple cotton in this comitry. Some experts do not 290 TH;E INDIA RUBBER WORLD [March 1. 1914. think that al present it exceeds a total o
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