. Agriculture for southern schools. Fig. 94. — Fibers orStrands of Cotton,enlarged 146 AGRICULTURE States. These are, (i) common or short-staple, (2) long-staple upland, and (3) Sea Island cotton. Long-stapleupland cotton resembles common cotton very muchin appearance and has the same shape of leaf; butits bolls are usually more slender and the lint longer,usually being one and one eighth to one and one half inches. After U. S. Dcpt. Agr. Fig. 95. — Where Sea Island Cotton growsEach dot stands for an annual yield of 500 bales. Jong. This extra length makes it worth several cents moreper pound.
. Agriculture for southern schools. Fig. 94. — Fibers orStrands of Cotton,enlarged 146 AGRICULTURE States. These are, (i) common or short-staple, (2) long-staple upland, and (3) Sea Island cotton. Long-stapleupland cotton resembles common cotton very muchin appearance and has the same shape of leaf; butits bolls are usually more slender and the lint longer,usually being one and one eighth to one and one half inches. After U. S. Dcpt. Agr. Fig. 95. — Where Sea Island Cotton growsEach dot stands for an annual yield of 500 bales. Jong. This extra length makes it worth several cents moreper pound. However, long-staple cotton is not so produc-tive of Hnt as the best varieties of short-staple and is a littlelater in maturing. It prefers bottom land. Among thepopular varieties are Allen, Florodora, and Griifin. Sea Island cotton is a tall, slender plant with branches,leaves, and blossoms different from those of short-staple COTTON 147 and long-staple upland cotton. The lint is very long andfine, and commands a price more than double that of com-mon cotton. There is, however, much less lint per Island cotton is largely grown on and near the sea-coast in South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, and is not aprofitable crop very far from the coast (Fig. 95). Varieties of short-staple upland cotton.—There areseveral hundred separate names, but many of these aremerely new names for well-known old va
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