Excerpt from A Handbook on Cooperative Marketing: Published for the Use of Local Officers and Employees Although the demand and use of our cotton and tobacco have increased steadily the last quarter century, the - economic history of ing that period has been a succession of misery, and poverty. Since 1896 four cam for crop reduction have been waged by the growers, only to find a few years later the famishing for cotton at satisfactory prices. Experts of the United States Department of culture find that during the last quarter cent tobacco growers have made money five years broke even five years, and lost money fifteen. 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.