Excerpt from A Story of Cotton The planting of cotton, usually begins, in the southern portion of the cotton producing area of the United States, as early as the last of February; and, by the last of March in the locality mentioned, the cotton is usually all planted. In the northern portion, the planting of cotton, is fairly under way in the month of April. In the southern area, under ordinary conditions, cotton matures, and picking begins, and the marketing of cotton starts, about the first of July. In the more northern latitudes, ordinarily, cotton begins to mature and starts being marketed, during the month of August. If the weather permits, the cotton markets of Texas, south ern Louisiana, southern Alabama, Georgia and southern South Carolina assume activity, and the receipts of cotton begin to be rather generous, by the first week in August. In the more northern latitudes of the cotton district, it is usually about the middle of September, before an active marketing of cotton is in evidence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.