TABLE or CONTENTS. 
CHAPTEE L 
Botanical Analysis and Description— Thb Flotteb and thr Feutt, . . 9 
CHAPTEE IL 
HiSTOET OP Cotton — Ancient and Modeen 12 
CHAPTEE IIL 
The Cotton Zone oi" the Woeld 16 
CHAPTEE IV. 
The Cotton States op the South 25 
Section 1. Geological Features — Mineral Productions. Sec. 2. Hydrog- 
raphy. Sec. 8. Climatology, Sec 4. Eain Fall, Dews, and Frosts. 
^Sse. 5. Productions of the Fore*t — Flora of the South — Edible Fruits. 
Sec. 6. Fauna of the South. See. 7. Soil of the Cotton States. Sec. 8. 
Agricultural Statistics. Sec. 9. Principal Diseases. 
CHAPTEE V. 
Ottltivation op Cotton 80 
Section 1. Selecting a Plantation — Classification of Farms — Prices, Em- 
ploying Hands. See. 2. Stocking the Plantation — Horses, Mules, 
Farming Implements, &c. See. 8. Preparation of the Ground. Sec 
4. Planting, Time -when — Selecting Seed — Quantity to the Acre — 
Planting by Hand — By the Planter — The coming up — A Good Stand. 
Sec. 5. Tending the Crop — Barring off— Scraping — Chopping out- 
Hoeing, and Dirting again and again — Good Seasons — Eapid Growth — 
The First Blossom — The Bolls — Estimated number on a Stalk to make 
a Bale to the Acre — In the Grass and out of the Grass. Sec. 6. Lying 
by — Opening of the Bolls — A fine succession of Kains — Too much 
Kain— Dry Weather. See. 1. Picking— August to January — Good 
and Bad Picking— Quantity per Day — Picking by Machinery — Fingers 
