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The chief cotton-producing areas of the world embrace: In the United States, the Southern States, including all those parallel with or south of North Carolina, as far west as New Mexico; practically all of British India; and Egypt, which ranks third as a cotton- producing country, followed by Asiatic Russia, Central China and Japan, Brazil, Mexico, and Peru. Among other countries where con- siderable quantities of cotton are grown, or can be grown, are Para- guay, Colombia, Venezuela, and Centr...al America. The Latin- American field has remarkable possibilities. In the seventeenth century the first attempt to grow cotton was made in Virginia, and by 1653 the staple had already become of much national importance in the British colonies of North America. 604 INTERNATIONAL BUREAU OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLICS. Cotton in England became a competitor to the then strongly intrenched woolen industry, and its manufacture being made profit- able through the great inventions of Arkwright and others, it received governmental protection and encouragement.
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