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Cotton Where cidtivated. 



A Cotton Field. Picking Cotton. 



79, Now, however, the American manufac- 

 turers are gaining a market for their goods in 

 each of those places. 



80. The Southern States produce about 5,000,000 bales 

 of cotton every year, worth about $200,000,000. 



8 1. Cotton is cultivat- 

 ed also in Egypt, India, 

 and the warm parts of 

 South America. 



82. The first cotton 

 mill in the United States 

 was built in Rhode 

 Island. 



83. The city which 

 sends away the greatest 

 quantities of cotton every 

 year is New Orleans, 

 and that which receives 



Cotton-boll. the most is Liverpool. 



