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fd Session ) I No. 117o 



SPECIAL AGENTS SERIES-No. 58 



»ACKING AND MARKETING OF COTTON 



A STUDY OF PRESENT WASTEFUL METHODS AND 

 CERTAIN SUGGESTIONS FOR THEIR IMPROVEMENT 



By / 

 JOHN M. CARSON 



Commercial Agent of the Department of Commerce and Labor 



TRANSMITTED TO CONGRESS IN qOMPLIANCE" 



WITH THE ACT OF MARCH 4, 1911, AUTHORIZING 



INVESTIGATIONS OF TRADE CONDITIONS ABROAD 



AND IN THE UNITED STATES 



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CEMBER 14, 1912. — Referred to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign 

 Commerce and ordered to be printed, with illustrations 



WASHINGTON 



GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 

 1912 



