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Mr. Lins has two gins, one 25 saws and the other 36. A kerosene 

 motor drives the gins. Bales of 90 kilos are pressed by a hand-screw. 

 All cotton seed is given to animals. 



Bahia buyers deduct in purchase 4 per cent, discount for prompt 

 cash, unless four months" credit is given, and a further 10 per cent, 

 is deducted as Bahia classifies his cotton as No. 2. 



Railway freight from Joazeiro to Bahia is almost 2 $000 per 

 15 kilos lint. Cost of transport from Pilao Arcado to Bahia=7$000 

 per arroba. If Mr. Lins sends his cotton to Minas he has to pay 

 about 800 reis per 15 kilos in taxes. 



The principal crops are Carnauba palm leaves, mandioca and Indian 

 corn. Fishing takes up a lot of the time of the people. There is no 

 share system. Those who rent land do not pay any rental. The 

 landlord is satisfied to have somebody on the land, on whom he may 

 call for help against payment of a daily wage. The products of such 

 tenants are sold to the landlord ; by these means the landlord probably 

 earns what he loses on the rent. 



Remanso : 202km. to Joazeiro, 1,167km. to Pirapora. 



A tarefa here has only 25x25 bra^as of 2-20 metres each. 



Verdao Cotton 



