CONTENTS 5 



CHAPTER X 



PAGE 



STATES OF PARAHYBA AND RIO GRANDE DO NORTE 132 



Geographical Notes— Four Cotton Zones — Commercial Cotton Classi- 

 fication—Droughts — Difficulties of Travel — Method of Cultivation — 

 Moco Cotton — Lages — Baixa Verde — Fazenda Joazeiro — Angicos Assii 

 — Jaguaribe Valley — Aracaty — Carahubas — Fraudulent Packing — 

 Fazenda Fortuna — Uruguayana — Colonia — Sao Antonio — Sao Fer- 

 nando. 



SERID6 146 



Geographical Notes — Cotton Production — Dams — Taboleira Land — 

 Scarcity of Labour — Gins — Valle do Saboeiro — Fazenda Sao Nicolau — 

 Valle de S. Jose — Cruzeta — Epinal— ^Barragem Gargalheira — Jardim 

 do Serido — Fazenda Volta do Espirito Santo — Sombrio — Parelhas— 

 Fazenda Velha — Valle de Sao Bentos. 



Santa Luzia^Sao Mamede — Pombal — Campina Grande^ — Maranhao — 

 Piauhy — Ceara. 



SOME PHYSICAL QUALITIES OF MOCO COTTONS] 159 



By Dr. W. Lawrence Balls ^ 



Scientific Tests of Hair Break — Wall Thickness — Ribbon Width — 

 Hair Weight — Length Measurements — General Comments — Chart of 

 Hair Lengths. 



CHAPTER XI 



COTTON EXPORT HOUSES OF PERNAMBUCO, PARA- 

 HYBA AND RIO GRANDE DO NORTE .. .. 166 



Baling — Sampling — Density — Grading — List of Exporters and Shipping 

 Marks — Motor Roads — Revolutionizing System of Trading — Campinas 

 Merchants — Campanhia Industrial de Algodao e Oleos — Sociedade 

 Algodoeira do Nordeste Brazileiro. 



CHAPTER XII 

 THE PRINCIPAL EXPORT PRODUCTS OF BRAZIL .. 177 



Sugar — Cattle — Frozen Meat — Hides — Cocoa — Rubber — Herva Mate — 

 Tobacco — Mining — Cereals — Mandioca — Carnauba. 



BRAZILIAN INDUSTRIES 193 



RATES OF EXCHANGE— 1919, 1920 and 1921 .. 194 



APPENDIX 195 



List of Brazilian Cotton Mills with full particulars as to number of 

 Spindles, Looms, Kinds of Goods Produced, Capital, etc. 

 Address by Arno S. Pearse at Rio de Janeiro before the " Sociedade 

 Nacional de Agricultura," under the Chairmanship of His Excellency 

 Illmo. Ildefonso Simoes Lopes, Minister of Agriculture. 



INDEX 225 



