With a capital of a few thousand dollars, and a personal supervision of his work, a Northern farmer, devoting himself to cotton-growing, may count with safety on a net profit of fifty per cent, on his investment.
Reid provides an estimate of potential profits for Northern farmers investing in cotton-growing in the South.
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