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the Experiment Station Record. To the West Indies the 

 American work on cotton has been and is of inestimable 

 value, and the same appreciation must be felt in Egypt and 

 India. The characteristic feature of the American work 

 and it is shown in their publications is the energy and 

 ingenuity displayed in order to surmount the practical 

 difficulties which confront the grower. 



To Egypt the cotton-growing world is indebted for the 

 Journal of the Egyptian Department of Agriculture and 

 for numerous papers on the cotton plant and on the 

 cotton seed problem published through various channels. 

 A useful French journal is the Bulletin de V Association 

 Cotonier Coloniale. From India comes the Agricultural 

 Journal of India, which from time to time contains papers 

 on cotton, and also the Memoirs of the Department of 

 Agriculture in India, and the various local Department 

 publications. Owing to the industry being in a state of 

 rapid development, the African literature is principally 

 composed of progress reports. But in Africa, as in other 

 cotton-growing countries, special problems will have to 

 receive systematic investigation, and in the near future 

 we may look to East and West Africa for new facts 

 concerning the cotton crop. Technological matter, con- 

 cerning East and West African cotton, appears from time 

 to time in the Bulletin of the Imperial Institute. The 

 Indian Trade Journal and British East Africa Agricul- 

 tural Journal often contain valuable information on 

 cotton. 



Several of the French periodicals devote some atten- 

 tion to cotton, particularly the Journal d' Agriculture 

 Tropicalc and L' Expansion Coloniale. The South African 

 attempts in the direction of cotton growing find publicity 

 in the Journal of the Department of Agriculture of the 

 Union of South Africa, whilst at home general references 

 to the industry will be found in Tropical Life, and from 

 a statistical standpoint in the Board of Trade Journal. 



Information concerning the West Indian cotton 

 industry is to be found in the publications of the Imperial 

 Department of Agriculture, namely, the West Indian 

 Bulletin, the Agricultural News, the Pamphlet Series, and 

 in the West Indian Botanic Station Reports. 

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