Excerpt from Cotton From Seed to Loom: A Hand-Book of Facts for the Daily Use of Producer, Merchant and Consumer Spot and future markets and prices - Changes in the cotton trade - Routes by which cotton was marketed previous to the war - New York's position during same period - Changes the war made in routes - Receipts-aud sales at New York since - Future delivery business - Future sales for eight years - Reasons why business in futures is a necessity to the trade - Could not be discon tinned - The new arrangement as to weight of 100 bales adopted by Liverpool conference - Prices of futures for seven years - Changes in mode of quoting spot cotton, how and when made - Spot quotations for seven years - Liverpool prices, 1788 to 1877 - Liverpool and Manchester market each week of 1877. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.