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No. 10. Cotton produced by — 

 Misbima Okataro, 



Ok im lira, Kiiboya-gori, 

 Bitcliiu, Okayamaken. 

 Amiiial crop, about 1,950 kin = 2,583.8805 pounds. 

 Market price, 9J sen per 1 kin = 1.32507 pounds. 



No. 17. Cotton produced by — 

 Kami-mura Kametaro, 



Imatsu-mura, Chinka-oori, 

 Suwo, Yainaguchi-ken. 

 Annual crop, about 1,725 kin = 2,285.74575 pounds. 

 Market price, 8.7 sen per 1 kin = 1.32507 pounds. 



No. 18. Cotton i^roduced by — 

 Uramoto Joichiro, 



Naka-mura, Amakusa-gori, 

 Higo, Kumamoto-ken. 

 Annual crop, about 2,275 kin = 3,014.53425 pounds. 

 Market price, 8f sen j)er 1 kin = 1.32507 pounds. 



BRIEF ACCOUNT OF COTTON HUSBANDRY IN JAPAN. 



Cotton is produced along the coasts, and where there are sandy soils in 

 the warm parts of so-called districts Kinai, Kanto, Chiugoku, and Kiu- 

 shiii; but in the most northeastern parts of so-called districts To-oku 

 and Holiuriku, where frost visits very early, the soil is unsuitable for 

 the cultivation of cotton, so that it is very rarely cultivated. 



Although the era of the cultivation of cotton in the empire is yet 

 uncertain, as there are various opinions, it is certain that the mode of 

 the cultivation in western provinces was introduced from Kinai, and 

 that the seeds grown in eastern provinces were brought from the prov- 

 ince of Mikawa. It seems, however, that the modes of all the jirovinces 

 westward from Kinai would have been developed in a very accurate 

 manner and that the general objects turned to obtain more and more 

 good crop. kSo it is ; in the province of Settsu the crop is largest and 

 coultl never be surpassed by that of all the other provinces through- 

 out the empire, though the expenditure for the cultivation in that pro\- 

 ince is nearly two times that of another province where the expend 

 itare is smallest, but as the staples are rather short and hard it is not 

 suitable for the consumer for both spinning A^ery line yarns and weav- 

 ing line and delicate goods. In recent years cotton yarns are imported 

 on a large scale, and on account of line yarn being easily got, the home- 

 produced cotton mu.st, it seems, be spun into coarse counts for warp 

 and used also for stufting. Taking this as a cause, it became finally the 

 general custom to i)iefer a cotton ])]ant which produces a larger amount 

 of cotton wool to all the other sorts, whether the staple is long or short 



