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Identifier: indiancotton00inte (find matches)
Title: Indian cotton
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: International Federation of Master Cotton Spinners' and Manufacturers' Associations Pearse, Arno Smith, 1872-
Subjects: Cotton manufacture Cotton trade
Publisher: (Manchester)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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.The quality is little inferior to the Northern Tinnevelly cotton, and agreat deal of it is exported, as Tinnevelly, from Tuticorin. This type is grown in red soil as a perennial cotton inNadam (also East Coimbatore and South Trichinopoly, as well as inLadam). . North Madras, from necessity, as rains frequently fail during the time when sowings should be made. WhereNadam is grown mixed with Uppam on black cotton soil it is treated 156 INDIAN COTTON. as an annual. Nadam has the advantage that it is drought-resisting,but it is easily affected by heavy rains, which cause a dropping off ofthe bolls. The perennial plants produce cotton all the year round,more especially after a period of dry weather following good rains.The picking generally takes place from February to March, but nearlyall the year through some cotton is showing, and the cultivators,when they require cash, go into the fields and pick some Nadam. Inthe first year the yield is very small ; the best yield takes place in the.
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The Nadam Cotton Plant. third year, and after this it declines. The ginning percentage is.about 23 ; the fibre varies in length from § to f inch, and is veryuneven and coarse. Nadam cotton is of very small commercial value. ^ This is supposed to be the original Tinnevelly cotton, T. ° .y and is said to have been introduced after a severe famine: or iinneveiiy. in lg68 Tinnevelly is a mixture of Uppam and Karanganny. The latter type is the best of the indigenous cottons,it is slightly creamy, much finer, stronger, and more glossy thanUppam. The ginning percentage is 25 and the length of fibre J inch.This cotton is chiefly grown on the black cotton soil in South Tinnevelly,.but also on red soils, in preference to Uppam. The red soil is used,only when the price of cotton is high. The yields of Karanganny and Uppam are practically the same.Uppam ripens all at once, and consequently in seasons of severedrought there is a chance of getting the crop matured. If the rains,in April and May a

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