. Cotton, its cultivation, marketing, manufacture, and the problems of the cotton world. con ON BOLLS: FIBERS OTHER THAN COTTON. The bolls are typical (1) Asiatic, (2) Sea Island, (3) American Upland; (B) rep-commou hard fibers other than cotton; (C) soft fibers; flax, hemp, and COTTON 57 paid for the Souths great staple crop. The archi-tect will tell you that he is building better housesthan ever before; the furniture dealer will tell youthat he is shipping more furniture than ever before;the manufacturer of implements and machinery willacknowledge that Southern progress astounds him;t
. Cotton, its cultivation, marketing, manufacture, and the problems of the cotton world. con ON BOLLS: FIBERS OTHER THAN COTTON. The bolls are typical (1) Asiatic, (2) Sea Island, (3) American Upland; (B) rep-commou hard fibers other than cotton; (C) soft fibers; flax, hemp, and COTTON 57 paid for the Souths great staple crop. The archi-tect will tell you that he is building better housesthan ever before; the furniture dealer will tell youthat he is shipping more furniture than ever before;the manufacturer of implements and machinery willacknowledge that Southern progress astounds him;the schools report record-breaking openings; thenewspaper subscription gains threaten to overtakethe circulation managers estimates; and even thepreacher joins in with the story that for once hissalary is paid promptly and in full, and that a ser-mon on foreign missions is now unprecedentedlyeffective. IT MEANS THE COMING OF THE NEW SOUTH These things cannot fail to have the most far-reaching influence upon every phase of Southernlife. Prosperity will bring more education, moretravel, greater contentment, more liberal thought—in fact as Sidney Lanier said nearly thirty yearsago: One has only to remember that whatever cropwe reap in the future—whether it be a crop ofpoems, of
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