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Cotton. Root and disease commonly known as Soreshin.Plate 2.
1 Bark or skin scraped off when hoeing the young plant carelessly 2 The tap root.
3.  The lateral roots. 4 Spongioles. or feeding roots of the plant. 
5.  Old injury as at Fig 1. when healed up. on the root. below the earth. 6 Transverse section of 
the root 7.  Old injury to the stem as at Fig 1. healed up  The upper part of the stem as
in the figure frequently becomes much attenuated. & incapable of sustaining the weight of the foliage
& breaks off during high winds. the injury is not so great when the bark is scraped off above the
first pair of leaves, as then the plant can throw out new and healthy shoots. 8 Transverse section
of stem, showing the bark. woody fibre [fiber]. pith and medullary rays. 9 Healthy young cotton plant.
Another kind of soreshin is frequently caused by strong winds, so bending & bruising the plant.
near the ground where marked in the figure, when the plant is somewhat older that the bark is
injured, an the same results may be expected as at Fig 8 & 10.  10 Young plant attacked by rot. at
or near the surface of the ground. This is frequently caused by improper drainage or cold wet weather
The plant thus attacked first droops. & eventually dies. This rot of footstalk is also frequently called
soreshin. For analysis of plant & seed, see Proc Acad. vol 6 p 195.
        