COTTON 



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COTTON 



OUTLINE AND QUESTIONS ON COTTON 



Outline 



I. Where Grown 



(1) United States 



(2) Egypt 



(3) India 



(4) Other countries 



(5) Most favorable latitude and growing 



conditions 



II. Different Kind* 



(1) Sea-Island 



(2) Egyptian 



( 3 ) Peruvian 



(4) Upland 



III. The Cultivation of Cotton 



(1) Planting 



(a) By means of machinery 



(b) Season 



(2) Cultivating 



(a) Method 



(b) Frequency 



(3) Picking 



(a) How the cotton looks 



(b) When gathered 



(c) How gathered 



IV. Preparation for Market 



(1) Ginning 



(a) Old-time hand process 



(b) The cotton gin 



(2) Formation of a bale 

 (a) Size 



(b) Weight 



(c) Value 



(3) Later processes 



(a) Rolling 



(b) Stretching and twisting 



(c) Spinning 



(d) Weaving 



V. By-Product* 



(1) Linters 



(2) Seed products 



(a) Food for stock 



(b) Cottonseed oil 



(c) Cottonseed meal 



(3) Stalk products 



(a) Paper pulp 



(b) Fertilizer 



(c) Lesser uses 



VI. What the Cotton-Planter Mnt Fight 



(1) Insect pests 



(a) Boll weevil 



(b) Cotton leaf worm 



(2) Disease 

 (a) Wilt 



(3) Methods of opposing these evils 



VII. Cotton Manufacture 



(1) Chief countries 



(a) Great Britain 



(b) United States 



(c) Germany 



(d) Russia 



(e) Other countries 



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Questions 



How many pounds of sea-island cotton would it take to spin a thread long enough 

 to reach from Chicago to New York? 



If you went into a cotton field, how could you tell which blossoms had just 

 opened and which had come out the day before? 



What are "squares"? What are "linters"? How are the latter used? 



What little worm has the power to frighten England more than the advance of 

 a hostile army on her Asian outposts? How is it most effectively fought? 



Which is the more valuable crop in the United States, cotton or corn? Cotton 

 or wheat? 



How does the planter know when the cotton is ready to be picked? 



Why should the greatest cotton-producing country in the world import any 

 cotton? 



What is meant by the statement that this plant "furnishes food for man and 

 beast and soil"? 



How can cotton plants help in the conservation of forests? 



