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Show MILL EXPERIMENTS WITH NATURALLY COLORED COTTON That black cotton mav ultimately he grown in the statement wo rend In Farm and Flroslrto tho national farm paper published In Springfield, Ohio. Already brown, green and ted cottons nro on tho market. "Arthur W. Rrahham of Hamborg Count, South Carolina, Is engaged In tho effort to cultlvato black cotton. cot-ton. Ills experiments have been carried on through bIx successive years and Inst season's culmination Is a bronzo hucd hybrid stnpK produced pro-duced by cross fertilization of green seeded native stock with nn Egyptian variety. Through the breeding process pro-cess ho has grown cream, tan, yellow green, light brown, ollvo green, and bronzo. "Recently ho pointed out what Is not generally known that already four varied tints of cotton ore- being grown In widely separntcd areas ot tho world. Theso nro tho cream colored col-ored variety from Chlnn, tho brown tinted from Egypt, tho coarso gray fabric cotton from India, and tho red and brown hues from Peru. "Tho growing of colored cotton would obviate tho necessity of chemical chemi-cal dyes in the manufacture of cotton goods In that thready colored by Nature Na-ture could be fed directly into tho 16oms. "Of courso this Is a dream, but when Luther Burbank was asked for an opinion ho said: Black cotton Is not an absolute Impossibility, Tho process though, ho prophesied would bo long. "Tho task Is beautiful at least to rontemplato although It bo problematical problem-atical In consequonco. "Ono cotton manufacturing establishment estab-lishment In New England, which consumes con-sumes annually 120,000 bales ot cotton cot-ton for mercerized goods, is making elaborate experiments with tho Ilrnb-hnm Ilrnb-hnm product. Te6ts nro being mado of tho tensllo strength of the fiber, tho fastness of tho color, nnd tho calendorlsclng quality of tho cloth." |