FROM time immemorial, Cotton has been a product of all tropical oountries. Hindostan, China, Persia, Egypt, and Sicily have all grown this wonderful plant; and when South America was discovered, the natives were engaged in its cultivation. The earlies...
FROM time immemorial, Cotton has been a product of all tropical oountries. Hindostan, China, Persia, Egypt, and Sicily have all grown this wonderful plant; and when South America was discovered, the natives were engaged in its cultivation. The earliest mention of the manufacture of cotton among earlier writers occurs in the works of Herodotus, who wrote in the year 445, B.