XIV LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



FACING PAGE 



Partly Opened Cotton Bolls Showing Effects of Boll- 

 worm Damage 108 



(Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture} 



Injury by Boll Weevil to Bolls 109 



(Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture) 



Effects of Boll-weevil Attack on Leaf and Squares . 112 

 (Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture) 



Poisoning Cotton by Pole and Bag Method . . . . 113 

 (Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture} 



Poisoning Cotton by Use of Spray Pump . . . 113 

 (Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture} 



A Farmer Comparing His Cotton with the Government 



Standard Grades 128 



(W. T. Payne} 



Round Bales Showing Method of Opening . . . . 128 

 (Cotton Marketing, U. S. Department of Agriculture) 



Gin-compressed Bales Ready for Shipment . 128 



(Cotton Marketing, U. S. Department of Agriculture} 



Gin-box, Egyptian, Gin-compressed and Recompressed 



Cotton Bales 129 



(Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Depart- 

 ment of Commerce and Labor} 



Transverse Section of a Cotton Gin 136 



(Continental Gin Company) 



