A 1906 article by Clarence H. Poe, editor of The Progressive Farmer, on economic losses in Southern cotton farming. It covers the waste of cottonseed as fertilizer rather than feed, careless seed selection, spending on nitrogenous fertilizer when cow peas could supply nitrogen, and the damage done by the saw gin and by inefficient baling. It also notes improvements in marketing and argues that the South should manufacture more of its own cotton. It is a farm-economics piece with no weaving content.

A 1906 magazine article arguing that the American South's near-monopoly on world cotton supply is not seriously threatened by British, Indian, African or Chinese attempts to develop cotton growing. It cites historical efforts during the 1850s and the Civil War era, quoting the London Economist, the Encyclopedia Britannica, the Indian Cotton Commissioner and Edward Atkinson, and notes that these efforts largely failed. It closes by considering whether Southern production can meet rising world demand, citing acreage, yields and bale statistics.

A 1905 magazine article by Clarence H. Poe on the economic importance of the cotton crop to the American South and the world. It covers the crop's value and export share, how cotton is planted, cultivated and picked, cost and profit figures, tenancy and plantation systems, Black and white cotton farmers, ginning and baling methods, marketing and export, warehousing proposals, and waste in cotton culture. Illustrated with photographs of fields, picking, weighing, ginning, compressing bales and a market scene.