ILLUSTRATIONS 



PLATES. 



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 Plate I. Cotton seeds with fibers attached. A and /^.—Cotton seeds with 

 fibers combed out to show uniformity and nonuniformity in the 

 length of the fibers. C— Lock of Griffin cotton stretched so as 



to show points of origin of longer fibers 4 



II. Seeds of cotton combed out to show the so-called longer fibers. 



^.—Columbia variety, i?.— Griffin variety 4 



TEXT FIGURES. 



Fig . 1 . Single cotton fibers from the so-called longer group of fibers 6 



2. A few extra-long cotton fibers, showing two fibers united 6 



3. Cotton fibers tied together, very much magnified " 



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