. 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. M IN AS—SAO FRANCISCO RIVER 101. .^^^, Primitive Hand Screw Press for Cotton Bales, in general use up-country Field workers receive 2 $570 per day. The share system is in vogue in these parts. For picking cotton the payment is 1 $200 per 15 kilos ; a woman or a child can pick on an average only 15 kilos per day. We visited also a plantation on the other side of the river
. 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. M IN AS—SAO FRANCISCO RIVER 101. .^^^, Primitive Hand Screw Press for Cotton Bales, in general use up-country Field workers receive 2 $570 per day. The share system is in vogue in these parts. For picking cotton the payment is 1 $200 per 15 kilos ; a woman or a child can pick on an average only 15 kilos per day. We visited also a plantation on the other side of the river ; in one and the same field there was rice, beans, grass, Indian corn and cotton. The owner could not tell us what he made on cotton. All the different varieties of cotton were to be seen. Creoula takes nine months to mature, but as they have no rain at that time of the year, this long period of maturing does not interfere. There was a great deal of " Big Boll " in the field, and some of it was good. About every ten years the land is flooded ; it is a slow inundation, depositing alluvial soil. Occasionally heavy floods come ; the last one was in 1919 of which all the towns and villages still bear traces of devastation, many of the houses having fallen in and have not been re-built. The water must have risen some 25m. on that occasion and for months the people had to take refuge on the neighbouring hills. Januario : 1,055km. from Joazeiro, 314km. from Pirapora. All the different kinds of cotton, except the " Inteiro " (or " Rim de boi ") are called here " herbaceo " ; the people grow the usual sorts, all mixed up. One gin had worked three years without sharpening saws. It was driven by oxen, the gearing being on the model of the old-fashioned Persian wheel. In this place we saw some women spinning by hand,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - color
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