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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



WEIGHING BAGGED COTTON IN EGYPT 



Photographs from A. N. Mirzaoff 



TRANSSHIPPING COTTON AT ALEXANDRIA 



Egyptian cotton has won an enviable reputation, but at great cost to the soil. The annual 

 inundations do not now furnish enough fertilizer for the crop and some fields are never 

 inundated, but get what water they need from irrigation canals. 



