CHAPTER VII 



VARIETIES OF AMERICAN UPLAND COTTON 



THE American upland varieties of cotton 

 are commercially divided into two 

 groups short staple or those having 

 a fiber three fourths to one and one eighth inches 

 in length, and long staple or those having a 

 fiber from one and three sixteenths inches to 

 one and five eighths inches. 



Short staple varieties when grown on moist 

 alluvial soils frequently produce a staple 

 slightly longer than one and one eighth inches, 

 but hardly long enough to be classed in the long 

 staple group. This grade of cotton is known 

 commercially as rivers or benders. 



Varieties of American Upland Cotton. There 

 are several hundred so-called varieties of cotton, 

 but a large number of these are practically 

 identical. This multiplication of names has 

 been brought about largely by farmers who 

 secure seed of some standard variety and 



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