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[Feb. 1907 



FIBRES, 



CARAVONIOA COTTON. 



Many references have been made in agricultural and other papers to the 

 remarkable qualities claimed for the Caravonica cotton. The following statement 

 in regard to it Avas made in the Annual Report of the Queensland Acclimatization 

 Society f 01 the year ended March 31st, 1905 :— 



During last year considerable attention has been attracted to certain varieties 

 of cotton in the Cairns district, and r amed Caravonica. The society has received 

 seed and lint of this cotton, one considerable parcel having been handed direct to 

 the writer by Sir Herbert Chermside, in the original package as sent to him by 

 Mr. Thomatis, who has enthusiatically taken up the question of this supposed new 

 variety. Most caieful comparision has been made in various ways with this variety 

 with rather disappointing results. In appearance, little, if any, difference can be 

 perceived between it and other cottons well known in the States. The overseer has 

 grown it alongside the plants which it resembles, and can discover no variation. A 

 rather poor yield of this variety may be a circumstance that would disappear with 

 the planting of seed from plants grown under local conditions. 



The overseer has examined the Caravonica variety as grown in the North, 

 and neither he nor Mr. Jones, who has also been comparing this variety with other 

 well-known sorts, can detect any superiority. To all intents it is one of the Egyptian 

 type.— Agricultural News ( West Indies.) Nov. 1906. 



