ILLUSTRATIONS Confmwed 



FACING PAGE 



Two Ways of Fertilizing .... .. .127 



Soils and Their Improvement . . . . ...... 134 



Comparative Quantities of Plant Food in Different Fertilizing 

 Ingredients ........ * 135 



Modern Cotton Making , . 146 



"How much does it weigh?" . . . . . 147 



Young Plants Just After Germination . . . . > . 164 

 As Destructive as an Invading Army The Boll Weevil . .165 



Starting the Crop , . 180 



The Alpha and Omega of Cotton Making . . . , 181 



The Boll Weevil's Conquest of Texas 188 



Before the Cotton Factory Came 189 



Transformations of Cotton Bollworm (Heliothis armiger 



Hubri) Double page . 188-189 



White for the Harvest . . . . . . ' . .200 



Making Cotton Without Hand Chopping . . .201 



Ginning and Baling the Cotton . ... 208 



Hope and Realization 209 



Waiting Turns at the Gin 228 



A Look on the Inside .229 



Cotton after Baling 230 



*' How Much Do I Git at Fifty Saints a Hund'ed?" . . 231 



Stages of Cotton Picking 242 



Nerve Centres of Cotton Finance ...... 243 



Interior of New York Cotton Exchange ..... 244 



Condition of the Cotton Crop 245 



The Ebb and Flow of Cotton Prices 260 



In and About a Cotton Factory . . ... 261 



Cottonseed, the Finest Cattle Food . . . . .276 



Cotton Seed Huller . .... 277 



Interior View of Cotton Mill . . . . . .312 



Cotton Manufacturing in the South . . . ,313 



Manufacturing: Fancy Dobby Loom ..... 320 



Cotton Fabrics. 321 



