ILLUSTRATIONS—Continued 
FACING PAGE 
Cotton Fabrics. 
Two Ways of Fertilizing 127 
Soils and Their Improvement 134 
Comparative Quantities of Plant Food i 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 Miltdng 181 
The Boll Weevil’s Conquest of Texas 188 
Before the Cotton Factory Came . 189 
Transformations of Cotton Bollworm (H ee armiger 
Hubn) Double page . . : : : . 188-189 
White for the Harvest 200 
Making Cotton Without Hand Cisppine 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 Fitty § Saints a Hud ‘ed ioe 231 
Stages of Cotton Picking 242 
Nerve Centres of Cotton Finance . 243 
Interior of New York Cotton Exchange Q44 
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 Q77 
Interior View of Cotton Mill 312 
Cotton Manufacturing in the South 313 
Manufacturing: Fancy Dobby Loom 320 
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