COTTON 



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STATISTICS WHICH SHOW THE DEVELOPMENT OF 

 COTTON GROWING 



I do not know that in any way we can get the 

 subject more clearly before the reader than to give 

 herewith the statistics of production by years for 

 seventy years past, and the acreage and average 

 yield by years since 1888: 



ACREAGE AND YIELD SINCE 1888 



