The cost of producing cotton : 842 records, 1918
A 1920 U.S. Department of Agriculture bulletin by L. A. Moorhouse and M. R. Cooper reporting 842 farm records on what cotton cost to grow, written for extension agents, economists and cotton growers. Halftone field photographs show men walking behind mule- and horse-drawn plows, riding seed drills through stubble, and turning furrows in open cropland with distant barns and treelines.













