FIBER CROPS 



white flowers, and sharp-pointed bolls, having three instead of 

 four or five divisions or locks. The seeds are black or dark 

 brown, and are not covered 

 with a persistent fuzz. The 

 lint is 1.4 to 2 inches, some- 

 times 2.5 inches long; finer 

 and usually 3ofter and 

 more lustrous than upland 

 cotton. 



Sea island cotton yields 

 less per acre and costs 

 more to pick and gin, but 

 commands a higher price, 

 usually ranging from two 

 to fifteen cents higher, than 

 upland cotton. It is grown 

 chiefly on islands and ad- 

 jacent mainlands of South 

 Carolina and Georgia, al- 

 though to some extent on 

 sandy soils of the interior India cotton 



of Georgia and northern (From photo by Dewey of herbarium specimen) 

 Florida. 



420. Egyptian Cotton. This type is considered to be the 

 same type as sea island modified on account of cultivation on 

 the irrigated lands of Egypt where scarcely any rain falls. 

 Many generations of growth under these conditions and possibly 

 some by hybridization with India cotton have developed cer- 

 tain qualities of lint especially adapted to the manufacture of 

 hosiery yarns and mercerized goods. Varieties have been 

 brought to the United States and are being grown by the United 

 States Bureau of Plant Industry to adapt them to the climatic 

 and soil conditions. 1 The opinion is expressed, however, that 



U. S. Dept. Agr. Yearbook 1902, p. 381. 



