The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-12-13
EGYPTIAN COTTON ESTABLISH
ED IN TEXAS.

The Cotton Growers Journal. .
waco, Texas prints two letters th:s
week from Mr.. w. w. Wentworth. al
Aarney. III the same State. with 70
ward to the progress of his experiments
with Egyptian cotton. which contain
matter OF much interest for cotton pro
ducers generally.
In one letter Mr.. Wentworth reports
that his crop Of Egyptian cotton is
slnned and about ready to send to Bos-
Oh where cottons of this and other
grades lind ready sale at good prices.
and he adds that the 1.SO0 pounds of
that product will bring as much as
1000 pounds Of lint from common cot
ton. About 1850 pounds of the Egyp-
tan lint, he explains, was gathered from
a siN-acre tract. which was at the rate
100 pounds to the acre. and the rest
from a patch. which, owing to the late
stand and the detrimental little bug
called boil Weevil. was almost Il failure"
IN another litter. he remarks that had
he received the assistance begged for
IN 1879 from the scientific gentlemen.
Texas would today be shipping thou
sands of bales of this beautiful fibre" to
factories in the North and ''realizinr =
handsome profit Of the four different
cottOns now grown in this countrv-sea
island. Egyptian. long staple. native. ..
y inches in length. and the short or
common cotton-he avs the Nit .Affif
tEGyptlan stands pre-eminently alone.
as no other cotton approaches the Decil-
llafltles OF It's iThre. The strength OF
the Texas raised. the silky lustre. ana
the soft feeling of fine lambs wool.
places it peculiarly alone" and he adds:
What q victory for Texas. to know that
an hon nIrIi1 IN nv ~ 4 49,
Gulf to Red river, and from the Sabine
to the Rio Grandc, she can produce i
superior fibre to that imported from the
fertile valley of the Nile, valued at $50
per acre" 1t will be noted particularly
that the cotton i'll question can be grown
on "ordinary cotton lands in every part
of Texas, and Mr.. Wentworth remarks
that arms strong i'll wealth have now
come to his assistance. after his four
years of struggle; and it may be assum-
ed that the crop he has introduced Will
soon figure extensively among Texas's
products.
In an editorial note introducing one Of
his letters. the Journal says: I'VE NAV
add that Mr.. Wentworth tells us in a
note that his cotton. sent to
and classified by an expert in fine
fbres. was valued at II cents a pound"
And he adds that the Egyptian. on our
Texas lands, Will produce as much. acre
for acre. as the COMMON variety. His
cotton was sinned on the Ideal roller
and not by the Mccarthy knife
roller Gin. = = = All honor to him.
has labored unselishly. overcoming
obstacles for the common good. and we
hink within half q decade. when Texas
$ producing several thousand bales of
cotton annually. Mr.. Went
worth will find that his work is aDprp-
as it deserves. He has won his
fight. The Journal congratulates him
most heartily.
1t appears to be Il safe conclusion from
I'll his that Mr.. Wentworth has made
complete and notable success Of his
fort to introduce the culture of Egyp-
cotton on Il large and profitable
Gale into this country. He has grown it
W the acre and made it produce as
much as ordinary cotton. 1t will grow
II ordinary cotton land and is worth +
hree times as much as ordinary cotton.
he Texas grown fibre is even superior
0 that grown in Egypt. The "boll
which attacked it this year does
OF affect that cotton alone, but attacks
nv kind: it is at no special diSadvan-
lge on account of this foe. We submit
} the cotton painting fraternity III south
'arolina that the experiments of the !
modest. patient and untiring' Texas p
ioneer is well worth repeating in this b
tate in their interest. 0
Possibly the cotton problem" will be 2
lived for the more intelligent and pro- Y
ressive cotton farmers by the produc- O
on of this fine fibre in large quantities, Ii
aving the coarse and cheaper product fl
, the rest. The demand for the fine il
bre has grown rapidly in the past few il
ears, and is growing every year. No 81
can is yet be assigned to such de- b.
,and. As it IS stronger" than the II
fibre. it may well displace that L
re in many manufactures in which the fl
tier is now employed alone and SO W
axe new demands as its certain supply in
creases. h
1t is to be noted. finally. that there k,