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COTTON IN EGYPT AND THE SUDAN. 



In comparison with the other two large cotton-producing coun- 

 tries of the world, the average yield per acre in the same period, 

 from 1898 to 1910, is as follows : 



East India. United States of America. Egypt. 

 SOlbs. .. 194 Ibs. .. 450 Ibs. 



The yields per feddan for the principal varieties of cotton are : 



The figures concerning the area put under cotton in Egypt are 

 available only since the middle of the eighties, and in the second 

 half of this decade shows 919',000 feddans, for the nineties an average 

 of 1,000,000 feddans; further details are shown in the accompany- 

 ing table : 



Yield 

 per feddan 

 in kantars. 



5-38 



60 

 80 

 98 

 64 

 42 

 10 

 58 

 88 

 39 

 80 

 61 

 51 

 12 



3-24 



61 

 34 



50 



The increase in the cotton area since 1895-6, in which season 

 the gradual increase in the water-holding capacity of the weir at 

 the point of the Delta was commenced by means of structural 

 alterations and improvements, up to the year 1907-8, when the 

 advantages of the Assuan reservoir, and of the barrage at Assuit and 

 Zifta were already beginning to be felt by the country, is clearly 

 visible from the preceding table. This table also shows that 

 between the years 1908-9, contrary to U.S.A. and the East Indies, 



