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remote from the practicable possibilities the best samples 

 of to-day must be (Fig. 18). It is hard to believe this is 

 so when one is handling some specially good St. Vincent 

 cotton, or similar raw material; but nevertheless it is 

 quite certain that the best cotton grown to-day is far 

 from reaching the moderate uniformity which it would 

 be quite practicable to attain by comparatively slight 

 refinements in seed -supply and cultivation. 



In the light of our analysis it is almost impossible to 



say what uniformity does not mean. Practically every 



property which a commercial sample 



Ubiquity ot p OSsesses j s partly the property itself, and 

 Uniformity. * 



partly uniformity of that property. 



Graders' strength is partly uniformity in strength, 

 lustre is partly uniformity in cell-wall formation; 

 deteriorated colour is non-uniform colour, and so forth. 

 It is to be hoped that, even if the class of investigations 

 described in this book has no direct applicability, they 

 will at least facilitate the interpretation of these terms 

 of common speech into their real components. 



