Frank M. Eaton

Nitrogen Content of Cotton in Relation to Other Fiber Properties

protoplast. If the composition of the protoplasm of the lint cell were assumed to be fairly constant with respect to nitrogen, or some other constituent, it would follow that the concentration of this constituent, in terms of the weight of the entire fiber, should provide an index to lumen volume relative to wall thickness. It was to test this relationship that the investigation reported in this paper was originally ’.undertaken by means of nitrogen determinations on 38 upland samples of various varieties and sources.