History of American textiles : with kindred and auxiliary industries (illustrated) (1922)
Boston : Frank P. Bennett · leaf 60
s.An ordinary hand will pick about 100pounds of seed cotton per day. Dixie has become famous in song andstory. The home life and traditions of bothwhites and blacks are back-grounded bycotton plantations. The aristocratic south-erner famed for the ample splendor of hisestate and warmth of… … Present New York Cotton Exchange Building an industry merely by the improvementof method. In I 790 the total productionof cotton in the United States was littlemore than 3,000 bales, equivalent to 1 ,-500,000 pounds. Twenty years later thissame country of ours produced more than177,000 bales per…
Textile industry -- United States · Textile fabrics -- United States
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