Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-11

of cotton and producing hybrid children.
which will grow well under condltions
where neither of the parents did Wen De
fore. We have crossed the Sea lsiano cot
ton with the ordinary upland cotton, and,
as a result. have added great deal 10 tne
length of the staple. We have brought IN
cotton from Egypt and have married that
to our native cotton with good results. we
are also using the Egyptian cotton seed.
and we expect to develop cotton that VIII
be just as good if not better than the me
Egyptian We are now importing $loOOO,OOo
worth of Egyptian cotton year. we wan.
to raise that ourselves. During the past
summer we had an Egyptian government.
official here studying our cotton. he Visit
ed all the southern states, ana was 81 IN
pressed by the agricultural conoitloiis .l.ae
he has decided to come to the United states
to engage in cotton farming. He says tn'i'
America has the best cotton-groWing terri
tory on earth.
Uncle Sans Cotton Belt.
"wbere are the chief cotton fields of the
United States?'
.'They include the whole of North and
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama
Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennes-
see. the Indian territory and the eastern
third of Texas If you will draw a line
from Norfolk Va westward through
southern Virginia, on along the northern
border of Tennessee and then nor.n
through Cairo. ILL.,. and westW ara again
across southern Missouri, to where the
Kansas and Missouri lines come together.
YOU will have the northern boundary FROM
the end of that line run line soutn
through the western part OF lndian terri
tory to a hundred miles or more west or
Brownsville. Tex. and you have plockeo
out our cotton-producing area. In that
region is grown about four-ffths of all the
cotton Of the world. There are more than
81 eco COO acres under cultivation ana tnere
On an,
(Which state produces most, Dr. Gallo
way?' IT..
"Texas. 1t had last year more than twice
as much land under cultivation as any
other state. and its product was more lnah
> 7Oa goo bales. Next to it came Georgia
with almost I eco GOO bales. and then MIS-.
sissippi 100000, and Alabama, 1l3l'Wo
bales" z,,,
..Where is the center of cotton produc-
tion?"
at is lust about where it was half cen
turv ago 1t was then twenty-eight mites
southwest of Birmingham, Ala. In lSyo IL
was seventy-eight miles east o! Jachs ,,th l.
Miss and in 1880 ninety-two miles north
east of that point. In 1900 1t was thirty
four miles west of Jackson, so that you
see the cotton territory is well blocked out,
and it does not vary much from year u
year.
Europe and American Cotton.
at is our cotton that keeps the factories
of the WOTlu SOinS, - ~ NV 49,
way?" -'s ---.s... 81.
yes. the great nations across the water
are dependent upon us for their raw mate
rial. Any change in cotton production Is
RAPIDLY felt in the manufacturing centers
of Great Britain and Europe. 1t anects
wages. it determines the food supply, and
sometimes even life itself. During the last
two wears there has been great distress In
many English manufacturing towns, on &C
count of the high price of raw cotton.
About a year ago, it Is said, that 10000 Ia
borers there were working short time, and
that relief funds had to be raised Tor
them"
John Bull Raising Cotton.
But John Bull is trying to make HIM
self independent of our cotton. Is he not?'
Il believe so, but there is little prospect
that he will be able to do so. He has no
territory which compares with America in
the production of cotton The British Cot
ton Growers Association has been active
in trying to raise cotton in Africa, India
and the West Indies. Cotton is being plant
ed along the Soudan and also In Nigeria,
on the Gold coast, and In Sierra Leone and
Gambia; but so far the only success of &C
count is in Egypt There, the yield aggre-