Cotton : History, Species, Varieties, Morphology, Breeding, Culture, Diseases, Marketing, and Uses

Contents: Preface. 1. History of cotton and the cotton industry. 2. Taxonomy of the cotton plant. 3. Cultivated varieties of cotton. 4. Cotton plants: their form, structure, and general characteristics. 5. Physiology of the cotton plant. 6. Reproduction in the cotton plant: flower development, spermatogenesis, fertilization, and the development of cotton bolls. 7. Cotton fibers. 8. Variation, heredity, and correlation of characters in cotton plants. 9. Cotton breeding. 10. Chemistry of the cotton plant. 11. Fertilizers, manures, and rotations for cotton. 12. Cotton soils and climate: soils; climate. 13. Cotton culture. 14. Fungous, bacterial, and other diseases of cotton. 15. Cotton insects. 16. Cotton harvesting. 17. Cotton ginning. 18. Cotton classing. 19. Cotton marketing. 20. Cotton exchanges. 21. Economics of cotton production. 22. Cotton seed products and oil-mill processes. 23. Uses and spinning qualities of various kinds of cotton. 24. Making cotton cloth. 25. Cotton statistics. Index.

"Aptly illustrated through diagrams and photographs and enriched with tables of relevant scientific data and copious references for further and deeper information—this work brings together a considerable body of information concerning the vital aspects of cotton crop and cotton industry.

Begins with a brief historical survey of the origin and development of cotton and cotton industry in different parts of the world, followed by a discussion of the cotton plants in various relationships—its botanical species, agricultural varieties, morphology, physiology, reproduction, and heredity. Described further are subjects relating to cotton production--cotton breeding, fertilizers, soils climate, culture, diseases, harvesting and ginning. This is followed, in turn, by a review of phases of cotton marketing--classification, cotton marketing proper, and cotton exchanges. Finally products and uses of different parts of the cotton plants have been discussed.

With a comprehensive subject index that makes reference hunting easier, appended to the book, it is a work of lasting importance of scholars, researchers, agricultural scientists, cotton growers as well as all those linked with cotton industry and cotton marketing." (jacket)