. Cotton, its cultivation, marketing, manufacture, and the problems of the cotton world. the countyseat; the merchant at the county seat sold to thecommission merchant at the State capital; thecommission merchant sold to the dealer at theseaport; the seaport dealer sold to the New Yorkexporter; the New York exporter sold to Liverpool,and Liverpool sold to Manchester. Now all thisis changed—how greatly changed will be seen fromthe report of a cotton exporting house whichhandles more than 300,000 bales each season,The cotton is now bought on the plantations orat the railway stations throughout t
. Cotton, its cultivation, marketing, manufacture, and the problems of the cotton world. the countyseat; the merchant at the county seat sold to thecommission merchant at the State capital; thecommission merchant sold to the dealer at theseaport; the seaport dealer sold to the New Yorkexporter; the New York exporter sold to Liverpool,and Liverpool sold to Manchester. Now all thisis changed—how greatly changed will be seen fromthe report of a cotton exporting house whichhandles more than 300,000 bales each season,The cotton is now bought on the plantations orat the railway stations throughout the wholeCotton Belt by the representatives of large exportinghouses and by the mills, said the manager of thishouse to us the other day. Our firm employsmore than 100 buyers for this purpose, and thecotton is shipped daily to the port where it isexpeditiously sampled, classified, weighed, com-pressed and loaded upon ships for foreign portswith almost incredible swiftness. We have had atrain loaded with cotton fifty miles from port at7 , and at 7 of the same day it has been. SOUTHERN VIEWS. Good roads make cotton transportation easy; the second picture indicates thenegros easy habits; the third view is that of a typical old-fashioned Southern Big-house.
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