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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. Contents Chapter 1: History Of Cotton And The Cotton Industry, Chapter 2: Taxonomy Of The Cotton Plants, Chapter 3: Cultivated Varieties Of Cotton, Chapter 4: Cotton Plants: Their Form, Structure And General Characteristics, Chapter 5: Physiology Of The Cotton Plants, Chapter 6: Reproduction Of The Cotton Plants: Flower Development, Spermatogenesis, Fertilization And The Development Of Cotton Bolls, Chapter 7: Cotton Fibers, Chapter 8: Variation, Heredity And Correlation Of Characters In Cotton Plants, Chapter 9: Cotton Breeding, Chapter 10: Chemistry Of The Cotton Plant, Chatper 11: Fertilizers, Manures And Rotations For Cotton, Chapter 12: Cotton Soils And Cliamte, Chapter 13: Cotton Culture, Chapter 14: Fungous, Bacterial And Other Diseases Of Cotton, Chapter 15: Cotton Insects, Chapter 16: Cotton Harvesting, Chapter 17: Cotton Ginning, Chapter 18: Cotton Classing, Chapter 19: Cotton Marketing, Chapter 20: Cotton Exchanges, Chapter 21: Economics Of Cotton Production, Chapter 22: Cotton Seed Products And Oil Mill Processes, Chapter 23: Uses And Spinning Qualities Of Various Kinds Of Cotton, Chapter 24: Making Cotton Cloth, Chapter 25: Cotton Statistics.