Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1892 — Cotton in Turkestan. [ARTICLE]

Cotton in Turkestan.

Turkestan is beginning to develop her resources in the matter of growing cotton, just as the SouthernStates are giving less attention to the staple and more to other crops. Turkestan produced 97,200,000 pounds of cotton last year, but her crop this year is 30 per cent greater, reaching 126,000,000 pounds. It is expected that a still mQre rapid development will take place in the future, as laborsaving machines have been introduced, and more attention than heretofore is being given to irrigation and planting.—Philadelphia Ledger.