History of cotton and the cotton industry, taxonomy of the cotton plant, cultivated varieties of cotton, cotton plants, physiology of the cotton plant, cotton fibers, variation, heredity, and correlation of characteres in cotton plants, cotton breeding, chemistry of the cotton plant, fertilizers, manures, and rotations for cotton, cotton soils and climate, cotton culture, fungous, bacterial, and other diseases of cotton, cotton insects, cotton harvesting, cotton ginning, cotton classing, cotton marketing, cotton exchanges, economics of cotton production, cotton seed products and oil mill processes, uses and spinning qualities of various kinds of cotton, making cotton cloth, cotton statistics.