Chamberlain, James Franklin, 1869-1943 · London : Macmillan & Co. · leaf 66
ty of far-awayIndia, called Calicut. I know something else for which cotton isused, said May. I have often seen on spoolsof thread the words ^ spool cotton, and nowI know what they mean. *^ I dont see how people ever thought oftwisting the short fibers of the cotton planinto thread, and then… … I 2 5 I HI THE COTTON^ FIELDS 56 thing, they keep thinking and studying untilthey get it. Soon after the people settled in our South-ern States they began to raise cotton. For along time it was raised in gardens as an orna*mental plant. Probably the first cotton wasshipped from our country in 1784.…
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