Cotton
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Encyclopedia article on cotton from the Universal Cyclopaedia and Atlas (1902), covering the botany of the main Gossypium species, climate and cultivation, hand harvesting, and ginning with the roller-gin and Whitney's saw-gin. It also treats baling, uses of cottonseed oil and meal, pests and fungi, fertilizers, early history in India and the American South, and world production. It includes one engraved illustration of a cotton plant.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1902
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 2
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