Lamb's textile industry of the United States, embracing biographical sketches of prominment men and a historical résumé of the progress of textile manufacture from the earliest records to the present time; . of woolengoods. Some of this cotton, grown on copper soil, is quite Red. TheSmooth Peruvian is shorter and resembles the Gulf Cotton of theUnited States, while the Sea Island resembles Florida Sea Island. The production of cotton in Mexico in 1909 was estimated at 125,000bales of 500 pounds each. Turkey produced 70,000 bales of cotton in 1909. Considerable quantities of cotton are grown in
Lamb's textile industry of the United States, embracing biographical sketches of prominment men and a historical résumé of the progress of textile manufacture from the earliest records to the present time; . of woolengoods. Some of this cotton, grown on copper soil, is quite Red. TheSmooth Peruvian is shorter and resembles the Gulf Cotton of theUnited States, while the Sea Island resembles Florida Sea Island. The production of cotton in Mexico in 1909 was estimated at 125,000bales of 500 pounds each. Turkey produced 70,000 bales of cotton in 1909. Considerable quantities of cotton are grown in other countries, amongwhich are Greece, with about 15,500 bales; Italy, 10,000 bales; Indo-China, 15,000 bales; Africa, other than Egypt, 25,000 bales; Haiti, 10,000bales; Dutch East Indies, 10,000 bales: Japan, 5,000 bales; Korea, 5,000bales; Argentina, about 5,000 bales, and the Philippine Islands, 4,000bales. While cotton growing in Australia has not passed the experimentalstage, the present indications in Queensland are promising. The institutionby the commonwealth of a bonus to the growers is serving as an incentive,but the requirements for local consumption will readily absorb the OF THE UNITED STATES 17 EGYPTIAN COTTON BY C. M. BLAISDELL The introduction of cotton into Egypt is due to a certain Mako Bey,who, about the year 1820, made the first attempts in his property nearAlexandria. It is from him that the Mako Cotton or Mako BaumwoUe,principally employed in Germany, comes. The French call the same thingTumel Cotton, after a certain Tumel, gardener of Mako Bey, who occu-pied himself principally with these plantations. This culture, protected by the Vice King, Mehemed Aly, acquiredsome importance in a few years. But the great development of theindustry occurred after the Civil War in America, on account of thefabulous prices that were paid at that time. It is not positively known where the first seeds came from, or ifthe primitive color was brown, or if
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