PREVALENCE OF HINDI COTTON IN EGYPT. 



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the different sections into whidi the fiekls were divided for irriga- 

 (ion purpoHes. Separate counts were made of phints along some of 

 the dikes, but without securing any definite evidence. It would be 

 interesting to know whether such diHerences of conditions woidd 

 have an influence over the expression of the Hindi characters. Other 

 ex[)lanations were possible— that the higher ridges had been neglected 

 at the time of thinning the plants or that the Hindi plants had an 

 advantage in germinating in the drier soil of the higher ridges, 

 because of the smooth seeds. The cotton often appears to be more 

 luxuriant on the higher dikes than in other parts of the fields. 

 Indeed, such dikes are usually planted with double rows of cotton, 

 as though to take full advantage of the more favorable conditions. 



Table I. — Coiiittiiigs of lliinii cotton pJantK. 



Count was made of 32,150 plants in all, of which 1,733 were re- 

 corded as belonging to the Hindi type, a percentage of 5.39. If the 

 percentages for the different localities are averaged, a somewhat 

 higher general average, 5. OS per cent, is obtained. 



One series of countings of Hindi plants was mad(> in an experiment 

 with Egyptian cotton in Palestine, at a locality called Beteha, near 



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