104 [No. 98 ECONOMIC CONDITIONS province, the Sudan Plantations Syndicate has pump ing stations and a ginnery. Here 4,000 feddans are under cotton, but, owing to the prevalence of cold nights during the cotton season and other climatic conditions, this area is not nearly so suitable as the Gezira for cotton -growing There are other smaller estates near Khartum , the crops from which are ginned at the Gordon College ginnery in Khartum . The College also has attached to it an experimental farm at Khartum North , with powerful floating pumps on the Nile which supply water for irrigation purposes to the farm and also to other properties.

Areas dependent on rainfall . — Rain -grown cottonis confined to the districts south of the Gezira, chiefly Renk , Mellut, and Kodok , on the White Nile, and to the southern portion of the Kassala province. Although the American species is the best for sowing, some rain grown cotton from the Sudan is considered better in quality than " middling American." cottonis cultivated by natives almost exclusively, and , since the introduction of the Sudan Cotton Ordinance , it is hoped that the picking andthe separation of the boll and lint may be carried out in a more satisfactory manner than formerly.

The following table shows the total export of cotton from the Anglo -Egyptian Sudan during the years 1911-16 and the proportion contributed by the Tokar district and other places : Rain -grown Total Export. From Tokar.

Year.

From other places.

Per Bales. centage of total. Bales.

Per centage of total. Bales.

1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 : : : : : : 22,823 15,000 12,830 9,435 23,765 16,219 12,193 8,788 8,957 5,168 15,937 10,061 53 : 4 58.6 69.8 54.8 67 62 10,630 6,212 3,873 4,267 7,828 6,158 46.6 41.4 30.2 45.2 33 38 ...