A short 1865 article from The Nation on the postwar prospects of American cotton growing. It estimates the 1865-66 supply, expected prices, and U.S. and English consumption, and argues that high prices will secure good order in the Southern states. It also discusses how free-labor planters should organize and pay black laborers, favoring piece or job work over the old task system or crop-sharing, and cites experience on the Sea Islands.

A 1905 editorial in The Nation reviewing C. W. Wright's paper on wool-growing and the tariff since 1890. It argues that wool duties neither saved sheep farming in the agricultural North nor were needed for ranching in the Rocky Mountain West, and that they burden consumers. It compares sheep numbers under the McKinley, Wilson (free wool) and Dingley tariffs and discusses the political role of the wool duty in the protective system.