Cotton trade guide and student's manual; a text-book for the American trade and higher institutions of learning, showing operations of the cotton exchanges in connection with spots and futures historically treated, also a brief history of the industry and its development, with numerous practical problems . COTTON EXCHANGES AND HISTORY OF COTTON 3 73. w t- is o erfaao 374 COTTON EXCHANGES AND HISTORY OF COTTON after its introduction in Virginia, before a shipment wasmade to England, a few bags=^ were exported from Charles-ton, S. C, in 1747, but not until 1770 was it made a staplecrop. The reco
Cotton trade guide and student's manual; a text-book for the American trade and higher institutions of learning, showing operations of the cotton exchanges in connection with spots and futures historically treated, also a brief history of the industry and its development, with numerous practical problems . COTTON EXCHANGES AND HISTORY OF COTTON 3 73. w t- is o erfaao 374 COTTON EXCHANGES AND HISTORY OF COTTON after its introduction in Virginia, before a shipment wasmade to England, a few bags=^ were exported from Charles-ton, S. C, in 1747, but not until 1770 was it made a staplecrop. The record of the shipments to Liverpool are as fol-lows : Ten bales from Charleston, 3 bales from New York,4 bags from Virginia and 3 barrels from North looking on, incredulous that such immense (?)quantities of cotton could be grown in the colonies, seizedeight of the fourteen of fifteen bales shipped to Liverpoolin 1784, impressed with the belief that it had been wrong-ly entered, and was not grown in the American colonies. MARKETING COTTON IN ANTE-BELLUM DAYS. Parallel with the settlement and growth of our countryis the development of cotton production. As civilizationfelled the trees and turned the sod, it planted the seed thatgave us our increasing cotton crops. Science, energy, industry and inventive genius have play-ed their
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