American School of Correspondence · Chicago, American school of correspondence · leaf 34
isgrown on Edisto, Port Royaland St. Helena Islands off thecoast of South Carolina, and theCumberland Islands off the coastof Georgia. Some Sea Islandcotton is grown on the low por-tion of the coaists of these States. It has a long, glossy, silkyfiber, with regular convolutions, and contains much… … Fig. 8. 25 COTTON FIBER. and for tke finest of lawns and muslins. It is regularly spunfrom 150 to 300, and commercially as fine as 600 ; has been spunexperimentally as high as 2,000. The territory adapted to the raising of this crop is verylimited, which accounts for the comparatively small…
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