Cotton Culture: A Guide for Raising Profitable Cotton Crops (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 1333714815 ISBN 13 : 9781333714819

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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The history of cotton culture is interesting. The cotton plant has an ancient history, having been mentioned as being grown in India more than 2,500 years ago. It was there used for the manufacture of clothing, which was said by the early Greek historian, Herodotus, to be of better quality and finer fiber than that of the sheep. And in his account of the plant he used the very same term, as is now applied to it by the Germans, namely, tree wool. The cotton plant was growing on the American continent at the time of its discovery by Columbus, and cotton cloth has been found in the ancient tombs of the Incas of Peru. The first efforts to grow cotton in the United States were made in Virginia about the year 1621. In 1781 eight bags of cotton were shipped to England, and in a few years the trade increased to 84,000 bales. In the year 1861 the exports were 1,841,000 bales, and yet, large as these figures appeared, the exports kept growing in volume so that for the year ending August 31, 1909, these amounted to 8,566,342 bales, the crop in this country being 13,587,306 bales. The crop of the world for the same period was over 18,000,000 bales of 500 pounds each. Of the four great staples for clothing cotton, silk, wool, and flax cotton has far outstripped all the others in consumption. Thus, while fifty years ago only 2,500,000 bales were manufactured into clothing material, the present high-water mark shows over 17,000,- ooo bales thus used! And yet, as the editor, Mr. Edward A tkinson, has stated, less than one-half of the people of the world are fully supplied with cotton goods. It is reasonable to assume that the demand will continue to increase, and although there will be a natural increase in acreage and production following high prices, it behooves the individual planter to safeguard his own interests by increasing the yield on each acre by intensive methods
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1333714815
• ISBN 13: 9781333714819
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 84
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