+===============================+=============+ Y Ypounds s. d. Y +-------------------------------+-------------+ YThree Ploughings Y 0 12 0Y +-------------------------------+-------------+ YOne Ridging Y 0 4 0Y +-------------------------------+-------------+ YDressing Ridges Y 0 2 0Y +-------------------------------+-------------+ YPlanting Y 0 0 10Y +-------------------------------+-------------+ YSeed Y 0 5 0Y +-------------------------------+-------------+ YWages for Nine Irrigations Y 0 5 6Y +-------------------------------+-------------+ YSix Irrigations by Pump Y 0 15 0Y +-------------------------------+-------------+ YThree Irrigations by Free Flow Y 0 0 0Y +-------------------------------+-------------+ YThree Cultivations by Hoe Y 0 7 0Y +-------------------------------+-------------+ YThree Pickings Y 1 0 0Y +-------------------------------+-------------+ YPulling Trees Y 0 3 0Y +-------------------------------+-------------+ Y Y3 pounds 14 4Y +-------------------------------+-------------+ YFarmyard Manure and ApplicationY 0 10 0Y +-------------------------------+-------------+ YTotal Y 4 4 4Y +===============================+=============+ The varieties of cotton grown in Lower Egypt are Mit-Afifi, Abbassi, Yannovitch; in Upper Egypt, Ashmouni. Generally speaking, the quality of Egyptian cotton is of a high grade. Its fibre is long, fine, and at the same time strong. Unfortunately this country has pests, not like the old Biblical plagues, but which give much trouble and do a certain amount of damage to the cotton crop. Among these are the cotton caterpillar and the boll-worm, the former being propagated from eggs deposited by a moth, which do great damage if allowed to hatch, by the larva feeding upon the plant. If the leaves upon which the eggs are deposited are pulled and burned, this mitigates the destruction so far as it is successfully carried out. The boll-worm bores into and feeds upon the heart of the young bolls, and thereby totally destroys them for the production of fibre. Up to the present no remedy has been found to prevent the ravages of these pests. The damage may amount to 20 per cent. Fogs and dews in the month of October also cause injury to the bolls.