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BRAZILIAN COTTON 



The Cotton Zones of Bahia are the following, together with the 

 quantities of sacks of cotton sold to the cotton mills of Bahia from 

 1st July, 1920 to 30th June, 1921, as per latest report of the " Centre 

 Industrial do Algodao," Bahia : 



During the same period the Bahia mills had to import cotton 

 per particulars below : 



FROM 

 Sao Paulo 



Sergipe . . 



Alagoas . 



Pemambuco 



Parahyba 



Rio Grande do Norte . . 



Ceara 



Maranhao 



Para 



851 sacks, weighing 110,611 kilos. 



,402 



833 



6,537 



399 



465 



310 



1,303 



71 



13,171 



194,272 

 77,390 



905,154 

 66,393 

 70,093 

 42,814 



186,188 

 20,479 



1,673,394 



There are only 96,964 spindles in Bahia. Some considerable 

 quantities of cotton grown in the eastern part of Bahia, along the Sao 

 Francisco, are often sent to Minas and this export is likely to increase, 

 as the merchants here do not like the introduction of an official 

 classer by the Commercial Association of Bahia. All lint cotton 

 entering the mills of Bahia is graded, according to the clean or dirty 

 condition, into three classes ; for the first the normal market price is 

 paid, for the second ten per cent, and for the third twenty per cent, 

 discount are taken off. Under such conditions it pays the small 

 merchants at the Sao Francisco river to sell their cotton, especially 

 the dirty class, to Minas, where no such differentiation exists, though 

 they have to pay higher transport charges. 



