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Introduction 7 



Composition of Nile mnd during flood .:. 9 



Irrigation and fertilizers 9 



Soils _ ^ 13 



Labor X4 



Value of land I5 



Animal labor I5 



Seasons. _ _. 16 



Cotton 16 



Distance between the cotton beds 20 



Date of planting cotton _ 23 



Sowing cotton ^ 23 



Watering cotton... _ ". .__ . 23 



Manuring cotton , , 26 



Summary 32 



Varieties of cotton grown in Egypt 33 



Ashmouni 34 



Lower Egypt cottons 35 



Mit Afifi 35 



Abbasi _ 36 



Jannovitch 37 



Seed selection .. ' 33 



Picking cotton ... 39 



Marketing cotton 39 



Cotton and cotton-seed exports 42 



Sugar cane 43 



Beets 



45 



Berseem, or Egyptian clover 46 



Lucern (alfalfa) . 49 



Corn 



49 



Wheat and barley ^ 5I 



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 58 



Beans ^ 



Rice '. 



Onions 



Millets and sorghums 59 



Minor crops 60 



Lentils 60 



Earth nuts, or peanuts 60 



Chick-peas ■ 61 



Lupines 61 



Fenugreek 61 



Flax 61 



