COTTON AS A SEED CROP

Cotton Seed Asthma

To the Editor, Tnti Indian Mhdicat, Gazette. Sik,?I shall be much obliged if readers of your journal will suggest the best lines of treatment for the following case:? A Hindu male, aged 36 years, shopkeeper by profession, has been the subject of asthmatic fits since lie was 9 years of age. The attack is brought on by the inhalation of cotton seeds, and is relieved by injections of liquor adrena...

COTTON Relationships between Insufficient Potassium and Crop Maturity in Cotton

difficult to prove cause and effect for maturity differences being responsible for any variation in response Potassium deficiency in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) depresses among genotypes to K. Theoretically, differences in root yield by decreasing late season growth and is reportedly more harmful to early maturing cotton genotypes. Research objectives were to detersystem size or effectivenes...

Cotton Seed Aqueous Extract a Potent Allergen

The extract used in an intradermal test (in the routine test for allergy) has caused deaths (Harris and Shure, 1950; Current Topics, 1951). The need for the test is doubted, as the oil obtained from the seed and used in shortening, salad oils, etc., does not contain the watersoluble protein which is the allergen. The danger, however, can be eliminated by performing a scratch test before the int...

Seed Vitality and Other Cotton Characters as Affected by the Age of Seed.

Use of Whole Cotton Seed and Cotton Seed Meal as a Protein Source in the Diet of Ruminant Animals: Prevailing situation and opportunity

The whole cotton seed and cotton seed meal have great value in animal production. However, such a valuable cotton seed products are not very much used in Nepal. Though agronomic work of cotton was started from very beginning with establishment of cotton development board in Nepalganj but the board have lack of multidisciplinary approaches. The valuable cotton seed products have been used elsewh...