452 PEOCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



No. 16. Cottou produced by — 

 Mishima Okataro, 



Oki mura, Kiiboya-gori, 

 Bitchiu, Okayamaken. 

 Annual 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-inura Kametaro, 



Imatsu-mura, Chlnka-gori, 

 Suwo, Yaniaguchi-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 produced by — 

 Uramoto Joichiro, 



Naka-mura, Amakusa-gori, 

 Higo, Kumamoto-ken. 

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

 Market price, 8f sen per 1 kin = 1.32507 pounds. 



BRIEF ACCOUNT OF COTTON HUSBANDRY IN JAPAN. 



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

 the warm parts of so-called districts Kiuai, Kanto, Chiugokn, and Kiu- 

 shiu; but in the most northeastern parts of so-called districts Tooku 

 and Hokuriku, where frost visits very earl^", 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 x^rovinces 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 provinces 

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

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

 out the empire, though the expenditure for the cultivation in that prov- 

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

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

 suitable for the consumer for both sj^inning very line yarns and weav- 

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

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

 produced cottou must, it seems, be spun into coarse counts for warp 

 and used alsp for stufiing. Taking this as a cause, it became finally the 

 general custom to prefer a cotton plant which produces a larger amount 

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



