Excerpt from The World's Cottons: A Summary of Cotton Fiber and Processing Test Results This report contains extensive information and data on quality comparisons of cotton produced and exported by many foreign countries with cotton grown in the United States. Exporters and others in the us. Cotton industry have expressed a need for such information, recognizing that quality is an essential element in the marketing and manufacturing process. U.s. Cotton encounters strong competition from sharply increased production and exports abroad. Over 50 other countries of the world export cotton. These cottons have a wide range of quality characteristics because of differences in such factors as varieties, environmental conditions, and methods of cultivation, harvesting, and ginning. Therefore, quality comparisons in this publication can serve as an effective marketing tool for us. Exporters. It also provides useful guides to cotton producers, breeders, and others interested in evaluation of different growths, types, or varieties of cotton having characteristics within certain defined limits. This is the fourth, and by far the most comprehensive, of a series of quality comparison studies published by the Foreign Agricultural Service. Since the last report published in 1969, there have been changes in the relative importance of cotton from traditional and newer exporting countries, and in their varieties of cotton. An endeavor was made to obtain cotton samples for this study within a statistical framework that recognized volume changes among countries, as well as the importance, within each country of growth, varieties, region of origin, grade, and other pertinent factors. Fiber and processing tests used, along with the traditional grade and staple length determinations, provide the most objective approach available today in evaluating cotton quality. These quality determinations, all made under the same Set of standard conditions, are indicative of the contribution of several properties to overall spinning utility and market value of the cottons. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.