Excerpt from Cotton in Australia: December 1966 In only a few years' time, a comparatively few farm ers have made more solid progress in Australian cotton production than had been made in the previous century. Stimulation has come from very high returns per pound as a result of an attractive price, a high bounty payment, use of irrigation water, and an example of cotton successfully produced by irrigated farming with complete mechanization. At first, a few Americans who had successfully grown cotton in the Western United States had the. Confidence to start mechanized, irrigated cotton farming in Australia, and show the way with high-cost, high-return ventures. They were quickly joined, and are still being joined, by Australians and additional American families. 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.