Excerpt from American-Egyptian Cotton Quality and Ginning The commerci1l production of American - Egyptisn cotton b'p gen in 1912 n the irrigated-sections of the Sou hwest, alter the segregation of a vnribtv Arizona and the Imperial Valley in Californ1c.. It averaged l 7/1f3 inches in staple longtl. Pima cotton dis laced the Yuma verie in 1918, bein grown almost exclusively until 193a in tm Salt Rivcr Va'.ley of Ariz on ghe staple averaged l-9/l6 inches in length. A small acreage 01 a new hybrid _variety called sxp, developed from a cross 01 Pine and 1acl11r1c1 'wes planted in 1935; and new it me kes up a substantial portion 0? Tne Amen cull Egyptian erep. It is shorter in etap1e length than Pima. 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.