P. H. MELL.
.Within recent years much attention has been attracted to foreign cottons, especially those of India and Egypt, because of the yearly increased importation of the staple into this country. It is claimed by a few experts that the fibre, in some respects, is superior to the ordinary “upland” varieties grown in the South, and that there is danger of the importation increasing to such an extent asto seriously injure the trade in American cottons.
