Excerpt from Cotton in the Empire of Brazil: The Antiquity, Methods and Extent of Its Cultivation, Together With Statistics of Exportation and Home ConsumptionUnder normal conditions Brazil can scarcely become a competitor of the United States in cotton production. But the disappearance of slavery, and the consequent adoption of some system of small farming, will, in the near future, materially (increase the present production. Slavery has fostered a remarkable conservatism in agriculture, which must, with the aid of educated planters, soon disappear. Cotton fac tories are already rapidly springing up and prospering, and. The day is not far distant when they will supply the Brazilian market.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.