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قراءة كتاب The Fabric of Civilization A Short Survey of the Cotton Industry in the United States

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The Fabric of Civilization
A Short Survey of the Cotton Industry in the United States

The Fabric of Civilization A Short Survey of the Cotton Industry in the United States

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دار النشر: Project Gutenberg
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2,250,000 bales. Egypt is the chief producer outside the United States, her product being approximately 1,000,000 bales of 500 pounds every year. Although the product is small, the best Sea Island produced in the United States grows upon the small islands off the coast of South Carolina. The long-staple Upland is grown chiefly in the Mississippi delta, where the product is called "Peeler," "benders," etc., though the percentage of long-staple produced elsewhere is steadily increasing. The success of certain Arizona growers in producing long-staple from Egyptian seed is being watched with great interest. More than 3,000 bales came from this source in 1916, the fiber averaging 1-1/2 inches in length. There has recently been developed there, 13 the new and important Pima variety, which is superior to the native Egyptian cotton, being both longer and whiter, and the growers are now planting Pima almost exclusively.

The following table, taken from the Encyclopedia Brittanica, gives the comparative length of staple of the more important varieties of cotton. The order in which they are given represents, roughly, their relative commercial value:


Sea Island Cotton
Length of Staple
in Inches
    Carolina Sea Island 1.8
    Florida Sea Island 1.8
    Georgia Sea Island 1.7
    Barbados Sea Island 2.  
Egyptian Cottons
    Yannovitch 1.5
    Abassi 1.5
    Good Brown Egyptian (Mitafifi) 1.2
American Cotton
    Good Middling Memphis 1.3
    Good Middling Texas 1.0
    Good Middling Upland 1.0
Indian Cottons
    Fine Tinnevelly .8
    Fine Bhaunagar 1.0
    Fine Amraoti 1.0
    Fine Broach .9
    Fine Bengal .9
    Fine ginned Sind .8
    Good ginned Kumta 1.0

The table of the number of spindles in each country in the world, given on page 6, gives some idea of the relative position of the United States in the field of cotton manufacturing. We have seen how the English industry, having the prior start, grew to imposing proportions and helped to bring about a change almost as great in its effects as the French Revolution, which was occurring at almost the same time. British supremacy in cotton manufacturing has never been truly challenged, but there has been an appreciable growth in several other countries, and in Germany and Japan, at least, the recent development has been little short of phenomenal. New figures will probably show that in the future Japan will be the chief competitor of England and the United States for a share of the cotton trade of the world.

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