COLTIVAZIONE DFf. COTONE
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   aDy case, the American competition would fiud a necessary limit in the cost of production.
   Now, whoever propose» to grow cotton must found, upou this data, his calculations. Whatever country is capable of growing cotton with a profit ut fourpence the pound, will be certain never to meet with an injurious competition from the supply of the United States.
   But, before entering with more detail into the The other coti uestion as to the growth of cotton in Italv, we il?tTÌJ* ea.pa"
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   must, after having already spoken of the East cottoti indies and of the United States of America  up to the present moment the chiet' quarters whence our supply of raw cotton lias been de-rived  allude to the other states capable of producing cotton, in order to see what part they are capable of playing in this great system of cotton cultivation.
   It would be impossible to obtain a better idea of the countries capable of ])roducing cotton than by studying them in the International Exhibition. There is not one country which is not there amply represented, with the exception of the United States of America. And there are verv few plants possessing a zone of vegetation so extensive as the cotton plant. The countries which have sent cottous to the International Exhibition are included between the forty-third degree of north latitude and the forty-third de-gree of soutli latitude. The district farthes up in the northeru hemispbere, which has exhibited cottou is the province of Ascoli in the King    Of cotton-growing countries we have in Asia: the East Indies, Ceylon and Turkey; in Oceania: Tahiti, Timor, the Philippine Islands, New Zea-land, New South Wales and Queensland; in A-