An article by Robert P. Brooks on the American Cotton Association, a cotton producers' organization founded in New Orleans in May 1919 under president J. Skottowe Wannamaker. It reviews the economic troubles of Southern cotton farmers (one-crop farming, crop liens, poor marketing), then describes the Association's constitution, by-laws, dues and organization. It also covers its warehousing and financing plans, using Spartanburg County, S.C., as an example, and closes with an appraisal of the movement's prospects and criticisms of it.

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 1909 article by Thomas F. Parker, president of the Monoghan Mills in Greenville, defending the South Carolina cotton mill industry from a manufacturer's point of view. It traces the growth of the mills from 1876 to 1908 and describes the rural poverty from which operatives came. It also covers wages, hours, night and child labor, mill village conditions, health, and factory legislation, and argues that the mills benefited workers and the state. It is a social and economic account, not a technical one on cloth or weaving.