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Weevils & Records. Before the Civil War at a time when South Carolina's Senator James Henry Hammond first proclaimed Cotton King, the South was producing about 4,300,000 bales per year.* In 40 years the production had more than doubled. In 1914 the 15 cotton States of the Union...
No. 1 Cotton State. In 1859 Texas produced 345,000 bales of cotton or about 8% of the total U. S. crop, doubled its output by 1879. As railroads spread out and opened up almost limitless tracts of new Texas land for cotton cultivation, the State's production tripled in...
Other Campbell suggestions: 1) require "good milling wheat" for all future contract deliveries; 2) eliminate "on track" deliveries and "bids and offers" * in the Chicago market; 3) prohibit Minneapolis trading in four grades of wheat higher in value than the highest grade recognized by the Department of Agriculture; 4) compel...
Next night a larger party came, augmented their din with wash boilers, drums, iron hoops, hammers, fiddles. Father Peterson, mad clear through, swore he would not pay one cent of tribute. Chairman Heino Nuutinen of the charivari committee retorted that they would stay there till he did, if it took...
Into drydock had gone the Pensacola at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the Northampton at Norfolk. Bilge keels were doubled; anti-roll tanks were installed; the low centre of gravity was raised. If upon sea tests the roll is longer, smoother, more calculable, the same improvements will be made on the...