COTTON (iODDS. / 



plantations in the Caucasus, ^vliich recently has rrachcd tlie aiiMPiint ut' abuui, loo.oiio 

 ponds; tlius the total amount of cotton worked up in Ixussia latterly is approximately 

 estimated at 11.500,000 pouds, or about 185,000 tons. Tlie greater portion of this 

 quantity, about 9,000,000 pouds, falls to the lot of American, Egyptian, East Indian 

 and Persian cottons, the lesser portion, about 2,500,000 pouds, consists of cotton 

 from the Tashkend. Kokhand. Khiva, Bokharan and Caucasian cotton-growing dis- 

 tricts. The different kinds of imported cotton used by the Russian manufactories are 

 principally these: Upland, Texas, Sayannah, Orleans, Mobile, white and brown Egyptian; 

 and from East India, Dharwar, Broach, DhoUerah, Ooinra, Veravul, Bengal, and 

 Tinnevelly. Those principally used are: middling, good middling and middling fair: 

 the higher grades are used in smaller quantities. 



AVithout dwelling on tlie generally known properties of the above mentioned 

 kinds of cotton, it will be remarked in reference to Bokharan, Khiva, Samarkand. 

 Tashkend, and also Caucasian cottons, that they are very similar to one another and 

 are related to cottons of short and medium staples, and in quality are like the cot- 

 tons of East India. The length of staple is unequal, and the iibres are rather coarse. 

 The longest stapled cotton is that of Tashkend grown from American seed, and which 

 for certain classes of yarn is preferred to the American. In colour it is white, with a 

 yellowish tinge; in length, 20 to 27 millimetres, rather coarser than American, stron- 

 ger bui is not so clean. American cotton being softer forms a splended material for 

 weft. The Tashkend cotton is very suitable for preparing twist. Caucasian cotton, 

 grown from fresh American seed, may be considered, as regards quality, as a very 

 suitable material for spinning low and medium counts of yarn. Latterly, a visible 

 improvement has shown itself in the matter of imperfect ginning and bad packing. 

 The general w^ants of the Bussian people in cotton manufactures are supplied almost 

 completely by home productions, as is seen by the following statistics of import of 

 foreign goods. 



All kinds of unbleached, as well as bleached and dyed, and also sewing and 

 knitting yarns imported in recent years are indicated below : 



Years. 



I Pouds. 



Paper 

 roub- 

 les. 



Years. 



I I Paper 



jPouds roub- 

 I les. 



Years. 



PoUDS AND PAPER ROUBLES GIVEN IN THOUSANDS. 



Paper 

 iPouds. roub- 

 ! I les. 



1877 . . 



1878 . . 



1879 . . 



1880 . . 



1881 . . 

 Average. 



1882 . . 

 1863 . . 



1884 . . 



1885 . . 



1886 . . 

 Average. 



1887 . . 



1888 . . 



1889 . . 



1890 . . 



1891 . . 

 Average. 



219^ 9,644. 

 263^ 10,026 

 27 P 9,836| 

 228 8,609 

 145 4,904^ 

 225 8,604: 



On the strength of the foregoing statistics it must be confessed that the import 

 of manufactured cotton yarn, if the home production be taken into consideration, is 



