Excerpt from The Compression of Cotton, and Related Problems These regional differences with respect to practices asso ciated with the handling and compression of cotton are apparent from the fact that although the Southeastern States produce more than 25 percent of the united States cotton crop. Only about 12 percent of all compress plants in the United States are located in these States and less than 5 percent of the total cotton compressed is compressed there (table The average volume per compress in the Southeast is only about one-third of that for compresses in the central and southwestern parts of the Cotton Belt. 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.