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CONSUMPTION OF COTTON. 
influences are yet to increase as the demand for cotton is 
augmented. There must be more soil devoted to its cul- 
ture, or that already under tillage must be improved in 
fertility. More laborers must bend to the work, or the 
industry now so applied must be rendered more produc- 
tive. And none of these changes can be accomplished 
without visible effects upon the social and political affairs 
of mankind. 
