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The Fabric of Civilization

A Short Survey

of the Cotton Industry in the

United States

Guaranty Trust Company of New York

140 Broadway

FIFTH AVENUE OFFICE Fifth Avenue and 43rd Street			MADISON AVENUE OFFICE Madison Avenue and 60th Street
	LONDON OFFICES 32 Lombard Street, E. C. 5 Lower Grosvenor Pl., S. W.			LIVERPOOL OFFICE 27 Cotton Exchange Buildings
PARIS OFFICE 1 and 3 Rue des Italiens		HAVRE OFFICE 122 Boulevard Strasbourg	BRUSSELS OFFICE 158 Rue Royale

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