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Figure 4. — Distribution of annual cottons in the New World in 1960, 



officers in Liverpool seized eight bags of cotton on the ground that so 

 much could not have been produced in America. In 1912-13 Great 

 Britain consumed over three and a quarter million bales of American 

 cotton. 



The natural desire of other countries to share in the wealth of this 

 export trade, together with such special stimuli as the cotton famine in 

 Lancashire caused by the American Civil War, led to the introduction 

 and trial of Upland cotton in most tropical and subtropical countries 

 of the world. The modern Russian crop in Central Asia is composed 

 of Upland types. Apart from the Nile Valley, all cottons grown in 



