Latest Edition of a Handy Book We have received from the Shepperson Publishing Ca., New York, a copy of the latest edition of "Cotton Facts," that issued in November last. The work is well-known to merchants wherever cotton interests are paramount, so it requires no introduction to Shang-al This is the 46th annual edition, and even more fully than in other years it covers every branch of the business from the production and marketing of cotton to its manufacture and distribution. For example, it gives the latest figures, from official and other reliable sources, concerning the acreage and yield of cotton, its condition during various periods of its growth, the surrounding climatic conditions affecting its growth at different points in its maturity, and the date of harvesting, all covering a series of years, which makes the book of the greatest assistance in forecasting another Year's crops.
Facts and figures concerning the world's movements of cotton, exports, imports, amounts of sales, values and prices, market fluctuations, dis. tribution, etc., are also given in detail for a series of years, making the work invaluable to merchants, brokers and shippers.
It has also been revised and enlarged in many important particulars, among which the following are deserving of special mention; viz; Comparative statistics on killing frosts, seasons 1919-1920 with 1990-1921; the extension of statistics on ginning to specified dates to cover a period of ten years back; exports from Egypt; world's invisible supply; the carry over; supply at close of season weekly sales at Liverpool; Japanese consumption; consumption by world's spindles: exports of cloths and yarns from U.S.; Japanese yarn exports; extension of table on Sales of print cloth; trade in foreign countries; manufactures; cottonseed exports, etc.
The entire book has also been arranged so as more readily to serve the convenience of those who consult Tés pages. Tables bearing on the same subject have been correlated so as to bring all statistics om a given subject contiguous to one another and the whole book to progress in orderly sequence from the analysis of the staple to its final distribution, taking up in proper order, its planting, cultivating, harvesting, ginning, marketing, manufacture and distribution. Each page bears its subject title at the top so that readers may readily locate any
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