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 . ning and weaving the new fiber, seemingly the gift ofProvidence. The seeds of the cultivated varieties are thought to havebeen brought from the West Indies, and mention is made ofcotton culture in Virginia as early as 1621; in South Caro-lina in 1733; and in Georgia in 1734. The most suitabl
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 . ning and weaving the new fiber, seemingly the gift ofProvidence. The seeds of the cultivated varieties are thought to havebeen brought from the West Indies, and mention is made ofcotton culture in Virginia as early as 1621; in South Caro-lina in 1733; and in Georgia in 1734. The most suitablesoil for the cultivation of cotton was that of the islandslying along the coast which produced the best varieties,known in France as Georgia cotton and in England asSea-Island. In 1822 cotton was reported as growing to the heightof six feet, in Louisiana, though its culture is said to dateback to 1722. In 1822 there were exported from the portof New Orleans, 167,742 bales. Nevertheless, the evolu-tion of the cotton plant, from a beautiful natural curiosity—a wild weed of the tropics—^to a cultivated commercialsubstance, whose snowy web of a single seasons weavingmight encircle the globe, was slow; and it was 118 years 3TBook of the United States, p. 353. COTTON exchangp:s and history of cotton. COTTON EXCHANGES AND HISTORY OF COTTON 3 73
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