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Show NOTES ON COTTON GROWING. About 70,000 bales of cotton Is this year's crop ot tho Laguna section ot Mexico. Tho Mexican mills will alsa rcqulro nn additional 80,000 bales from tho United States during 190C. Tho Rrltlsh chargo In Guatemala has forwarded to' London a snmplo oi wocvIl-reslBtlng cotton grown In the Rctnlhulcn district of western Guato mala. It Is called "Paction," Is a short-season cotton, productive and with a liber ot good length and texture. tex-ture. Tho Turkish minister of ngrlculturo Is about to buy 2,200 pounds of American Amer-ican and ICgyptlnn cotton seed for the Improvement of tho quality of cotton mined In Turkey. Tho seed will be distributed In tho provinces ot Adana, Aldln and Salonika, according to the Levant Herald. Tho exports ot raw cotton from southern Nigeria in 1905 declined to DC.300 pounds, having been 285,039 pounds In 1901. This falling oft Is expected ex-pected to adjust Itself during tho present pres-ent year, whon the now plantations will commence to ylold, states the Government Gazette of tho Nigeria protectorate. It has also been reported re-ported that there, was Borao cotton to bo shipped from northern Nigeria. |