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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
the best Machine — Storing away the Cotton — Quantity of Seed Cot- 
ton to the Acre. See. 8. Ginning and Pressing — Baling. See. 9. The 
Market. Sec. 10. The Successful Planter — Experiments made by 
Northerners in 1866 — A Sensible Vermonter. Sec. 11. The Labor 
Question — Can the White Man labor in the Cotton Melds 1 — How do 
the Freedmen work ? — How will the two Classes work together ? — 
What is the probable Future of the Freedmen?— Comparative Esti- 
mate of Free and Slave Labor. 
CHAPTEB VL 
Pkodtjotion and Expokts of Cotton — Rbmaeks on the Goveknmbnt Tax. 107 
Section 1. Production and Exports of Cotton — Statistics — Great Demand 
for American Cotton in all the Markets of the World. Sea. 2. Eemarks 
on the Government Tax. 
CHAPTER VIL 
Mandtacttteb of Cotton 126 
Section 1. Textile Fabrics— History of the Cotton Manufacture. Sec. 2. 
Cotton Manufactures in the United States. Sec. 8. The Cotton Matu- 
factures of Europe— Manufacture of Cotton by its Producers. 
CHAPTER Vm. 
Consumption of Cotton 143 
CHAPTER IX. 
Cotton Seed — Chemical Composition — TTTiLrrv of Sueplus Seed — ^Food 
FOB Cattle— Manueb — Oil— Oil-Cakes 147 
CHAPTER X 
Diseases op the Cotton Plant 161 
Section 1. Diseases resulting from Insects — Insects frequenting the Cot- 
ton Plant^Insects found upon the Stalks — Insects found on the Leaf 
— Insects found on the Terminal Shoots — Insects found on the Flower 
— Insects found upon the Boll — Insects found on rotted Bolls — In- 
sects ound in the Cotton Fields not injurious to the Crop — Insects 
beneficial to Cotton. Sec. 2. Accidents and Diseases of the Cotton 
Plant, usually from other Causes than Insects — Sore-shin — Frenching 
— The Eflfects of a bad Subsoil — The Rust — Shedding of young Buds, 
or Bolls, caused by wet Weather— The Rot. 
CHAPTER XL 
CoKOLiTDiNG Remakes — The complicated Netwokk op Cotton — Indttoe- 
MENTs TO Immigrants — Advantages and Disadvantages — Ftjtitee 
of the Sottth 247 
