A USDA circular promoting home production of cotton mattresses. Materials needed to make a mattress included "10 Yards--8 oz. Ticking," "50 Pounds Long Staple Cotton," "Mattress Roll Needle," and "Thread for Making Roll." Page 2 of 4.

Cotton Mattress Circular, p.2
Series I, subseries 1, Documentary Files (1914-1939), Box 1.1/8, file "VI B9. Cotton mattress program, Book 1, 1940," USDA History Collection, Special Collections, National Agricultural Library.

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