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With a good season and without overflow, the yield ought to be twelve hundred bales of cotton, worth, say, a hundred dollars per bale.
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Whitelaw Reid
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gutenberg.orgWhitelaw Reid: “With a good season and without overflow, the yield ought to be twelve hundred bales of cotton, worth, say, a hundred…”
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Reid provides an estimate of the expected cotton yield and its potential market value, reflecting agricultural expectations.
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