Encyclopedia article on cotton from the Universal Cyclopaedia and Atlas (1902), covering the botany of the main Gossypium species, climate and cultivation, hand harvesting, and ginning with the roller-gin and Whitney's saw-gin. It also treats baling, uses of cottonseed oil and meal, pests and fungi, fertilizers, early history in India and the American South, and world production. It includes one engraved illustration of a cotton plant.