Excerpt from The Cotton Situation, Vol. 149: September-October 1953 Before marketing quotas for the 195a upland and extra - long staple crops become effective, they must be approved by two-thirds of the cotton farmers voting in national referendums. The referendums will be held on December 15 for both upland and extra-long staple quotas. In each of the 7 previous referendums held on upland cotton quotas, growers have approved such quotas by substantially more than the percentage required to continue them in effect. 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.

Prior to 1862, when the Department of Agriculture was established, the report on agriculture was prepared and published by the Commissioner of Patents, and forms volume or part of volume, of his annual reports, the first being that of 1840. Cf. Checklist of public documents ... Washington, 1895, p. 148.

Excerpt from The Cotton Situation, Vol. 135: August 1951 The estimate of the 1951 production exceeds the Secretary of Agriculture's suggested 16 million bale crop by about lwl/4 million bales. The largest absolute increases in cotton production from 1950 to 1951 are in Texas. California, and Mississippi, where 2054, 772, and 668 thousand more bales are expected than last year. The largest relative increases in the major cotton producing States are indicated in North Carolina, Oklahoma and South Carolina, where production is expected to rise by 237, 181 and 112 percent, (table There were no legal restrictions on cotton acreage in 1951. 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.