LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL 



U. S. Department of Agriculture, 



Bureau of Plant Industry, 



Office of the Chief, 

 Washington^ D. C.^ January 13, 1911. 

 Sir : I have the honor to transmit herewith a paper entitled *' Hindi 

 Cotton in Egypt," by Mr. O. F. Cook, of this Bureau, and to recom- 

 mend its publication as Bulletin No. 210 of the Bureau series. 



This paper reports the results of a visit to the cotton-growing 

 districts of Egj-pt in June and July, 1910. It shows that the ad- 

 mixture of inferior Hindi cotton is a serious burden upon the Egyp- 

 tian industry and that our more intelligent farmers can secure an 

 imj)ortant advantage through the improved system of selection that 

 has been developed by experiments in Arizona. A careful compari- 

 son of the results of the Arizona experiments with the conditions 

 actually existing in Egypt became necessary in order to determine 

 whether a satisfactory degree of uniformity has been attained in our 

 acclimatized strains of Egyptian cotton. A previous study of the 

 problem of diversity of the Egyptian cotton had been made in 

 Arizona, as reported in Bulletins Xos. 147 and 156 of this series. 

 Respectfully, 



Wm. a. Taylor, 

 Acting Chief of Bureau. 

 Hon. James Wilson, 



Secretary of Agriculture. 



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