The Cotton Situation

Contents: Cotton the Great Crop of the South --- World Production (India – Egypt – South America – China) --- Principal Types of Cotton --- Shifts in Cotton Production --- Acreage, Yield, and Production --- Diversification of Crops in the South --- The Cotton Belt (Soils of the Cotton Belt – Climate of the Cotton Belt – Crop Combinations in the Cotton Belt – General Farm Practices – Fertilizers) --- Cotton Pests (The Boll Weevil – The Pink Bollworm – The Cotton Bollworm – The Cotton Leafworm) --- Cotton Diseases in the United States (Cotton Wilt – Texas Root-Rot – Root-Knot – Rust – Anthracnose – Angular Leaf-Spot) --- Cost of Production (Variation in Cost of Production – An Example – Costs and Prices) --- Organization for Profitable Production --- Financing the Cotton Grower --- Cotton Handling and Marketing (Short Staple and Long Staple Cottons – Ginning – Handling Cotton Seed – Warehousing – Grading Cotton – Linters – Cotton Markets – Marketing and Prices – Transportation) --- The Consumption of the Cotton Crop (Cotton Exports – Utilization of Cotton Seed) --- Deterioration in Quality of the American Cotton Crop (Danger from Foreign Competition – Improvement Through Utilization of Better Varieties – Importance of One-Variety Communities – Cooperative Warehousing and One-Variety Communities) --- Summary of the Situation and Outlook.