Front matter
Reading edition
The Fabric of Civilization
A Short Survey
of the Cotton Industry in the
United States
Guaranty Trust Company of New York
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COPYRIGHT, 1919
GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK
THE cotton industry touches the lives of the vast majority of the peoples of the earth. The ensuing survey does not pretend to cover the field in all its diversity. It aims to give, in brief compass, such general facts concerning the industry in the United States as may enable the reader quickly to familiarize himself with its broader outlines.
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE
I The Importance and Power of Cotton 5
II Where Cotton is Grown and Spun and Why 10
III The Raw Cotton Market 17
IV The Cloth Market 27
V Financing Cotton and Cotton Cloth 33
VI American Cloth in Foreign Markets 38
VII Some of the Grower’s Problems 41
VIII In the Cotton Mill 45
IX The Finishing Operations 57
The Fabric of Civilization