The Pulaskian., 1916-11-10
COTTON CLASSING
 INTERESTING 10 ALL
VALUABLE KNOWLEDGE THAT CAN BE GAINED AT HOME AT TENDING REGULAR DUTIES
 LEARN IT BY MAIL.

There appears in The Pulaskian this week, on the fifth page, an ad- vertisement that should appeal to the farmers, the merchants, and the laity in general. all who are interested in cotton tand who in the Southland is not?) Most particularly should it ap- peal to those who are interested di- rectly in the growing or general hand ling of the South's staple crop.
 It is well known fact that 95 per cent of the farmers are ignorant of the value of the commodities they raise, most particularly their cotton, but by this system of George Butter worths, knowledge can be gained at home while attending ones regu- lar duties. Knowing him personally and his abilities as a teacher, the matter is at least worth investigation, which we are sure on explanation by him would be sufficiently convincing that it is bona fide proposition and something worth taking advantage Of. synopsis of one of MT Butterworth's lectures on cotton is given below:
 Cotton! what could we not write about 1t? It's earliest cultivation was in India, and for 1500 years before Christ and 1900 years following the beginning of the Christian era India was the practical center of the cotton industry. There is no information as to when cotton was introduced in A nnf-ias E<,Is ,h,,, extensively in the West Indies in 1492 as did Cortez in Mexico in 1519, and in South America 1t was found growing in Peru in 1922
 .Mummies found in Peruvian tombs of very ancient dates were covered with cotton cloth to which seeds were attached. Literature circulated by the Colonists at Jamestown makes mention of cotton in 1909. It Is further referred to as natural commodity of the State of Virginia in 1920. Refer ence was made to it in a brief descrIp- tion of the Province of Carolina pub lished in 1866. Cotton became fac tor commercially in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Maryland and Florida between the years of 1708 and 1754. In 1751 there were exported to London from New York IS bales of cotton. The countries where cotton Is grown are as follows: America, East India, China, Russia, Brazil, Mexico, Asia Minor and Turkey, Persia, Peru, Africa, Egypt, Dutch East Indies Indo China, Japan, Hayti, Greece, Korea, Argentina and Philippine Islands. In all these countries in 1914 were raised 2S,773,600 equivalent 500-pounds bales, and of this amount the United States of America contributed about 51 per cent. Aside from corn the most val uable crop grown in the United States is cotton.
 There are upwards of 200 varieties of American cotton, the origin of but resulted either from selection of individual plants for the original stock, the saving of seed from the earliest and best maturing bolls, cross fertizilation, and the very simple pro cess of changing the name
 "The cotton gin invented by Ell | Whitney has had most to do with the development of the cotton industry; this and the inventions of Arkwright and Crampton Gin the spinning branch of the industry) with seed picked by hand the growing of cotton could never have become great com mercial enterprise, nor could it's man ufacture have developed so wonder
 Continued on Page S.)