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Excerpt from Cotton Growing for Rural Schools
Cotton cloth has been found in the ancient tombs of the Incas of Peru about the year of 1522. The poetic writers of the Orient called the cloth webs of woven wind.
From 1500 B. C. Until an equal number of years after the begin ning of the Christian Era, India was the center of the cotton indus try. From India it was introduced into China and Japan, and rapidly spread over Arabia, Africa and Egypt. History states that cotton was growing on the American continent at the time of its discovery by Columbus, and that the first efforts to grow cotton in the United States were made in Virginia about the year 1621. In 1764 eight small bags of cotton were exported to Liverpool from the United States.
The separation of the seed from the lint was a Herculean task, the work being done by hand, four pounds of lint cotton per week being the task required from each head of a family, in addition to the usual field work. At this rate it required one individual a little more than two years to remove the seed from a bale.
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