Printed proceedings of the Conference of Growers and Manufacturers of Cotton, held in Washington, D.C., on May 1 and 2, 1906. Delegates from American and European cotton manufacturing and growing associations discussed cultivation methods, acreage, the cost of production and price stability, speculation in futures, and marketing and warehousing. They also took up ginning, baling and standardizing the cotton bale (tare, bands, shape, fire losses), the international federation, and Census Bureau and Agriculture Department crop reports. The volume includes the preface, a record of the preliminary meeting, delegate lists, addresses, verbatim discussion, committee reports, resolutions and the closing address.