A two-page magazine article on the American cotton economy in 1904. It covers the South's dominance of world cotton production, the growth of southern cotton mills and mill labor, the boll weevil threat, and the speculative price run led by Daniel Sully and W. P. Brown. It also looks at the effects of high prices on southern social life and on mills in Britain, France and New England, and gives crop value figures for 1896 to 1904.

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 1904 magazine article by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips on cotton planting in the American South, centered on J. W. Young's plantation near Prattville, Alabama. It covers tenant and cropper labor arrangements, costs and profits per acre, subsidiary crops, plowing and picking routines, ginning, compressing and baling, and a local road-building project. It is illustrated with photographs of plantation life, cotton picking, and bale handling and shipment.

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.