Around The Year With
Around The Year With Cotton Growers Routine Of Any Group Of Workers Forms The Skeleton On Which The Living Flesh Of Their Social Life Is Developed. To The Diurnal, Weekly, Seasonal, And Annual Cycles, The Community, Civic, Recreational, And Even Familial Routine Of The Worker Must Conform. Thus A Highly ...
Case Studies
Case Studies Factors In Cotton, It Is To Be Feared, Have Been Too Often Disposed Of In Easy Generalizations. These Generalizations Are Likely To Fall Into One Or The Other Of Two Extreme Attitudes. White Croppers In Particular And Negro Farmers In General, So Runs One Commonly Held View, Are ...
Cities Built On Cotton
Cities Built On Cotton The Location And Growth Of Southern Cities Have Been Determined Largely By Their Relation To Cotton Culture. The Human Ecology Of The Cotton Belt Would Include An Account Of The Agricultural Capitals, The Distribution Of Cities Built On Cotton. Cities In Relation To Cotton Are Di ...
Comparative Size And Value
Comparative Size And Value Of Northern And Southern Farms 1850-1910 The Movement From Landlords To Home Ownership Was Checked Before Completion. In 1881 Henry W. Grady Could Write: After Sixteen Years Of Trial Everything Is As Yet Indeter Minate. And Whether This Staple Is Cultivated In The South To Independence ...
Competing Cotton Areas
Competing Cotton Areas Not Only Is Production Fluctuating, But Cotton Acreage Tends To Increase In Spite Of Falling Prices. This Addi Tional Hazard To The Cotton Producers Results From The Competition Between Different Cotton Areas. It Can Be Shown That The Western Belt Can Produce Cotton At A Profit While ...
Cotton And Cawn
"cotton And `cawn" A Spot Map Of The Distribution Of Corn Shows That It Is Cultivated In All Portions Of The Cotton Belt Although There Is No Such Concentration As Found In The Corn Belt Reaching Through Iowa, Illinois, And Indiana. Baker Esti Mates That 48 To 52 Per Cent ...
Diversification
Diversification When One Seeks To Ascertain Why Growing Cotton Should Require So Large A Percentage Of Credit, He Is Confronted With Two Types Of Answers. One Answer Explains The Situa Tion In Terms Of Human Defects—incompetence And Lack Of Thrift And Industry. Another Answer May Be Found In The Nature ...
Field Labor Of Women
Field Labor Of Women And Children Another Factor So Far Inherent In Cotton Culture Is The Large Amount Of Labor Required. Not Only Is A Large Amount Required But It Is Cheap Labor. Cotton Is A Cheap Labor Crop, As Has Been Suggested, Largely Because It Can Not Be Grown ...
From The Cotton Plantation
From The Cotton Plantation To Cotton Tenancy From All Accounts The Plantation Withstood The Shock Of War And The Loss Of Its Great Staple Remarkably Well." Where Unaffected By The Actual Struggle, Its Organiza Tion Not Only Remained Intact, But The Cultivation Of Corn, Cowpeas, Irish Potatoes, Sweet Potatoes, Beans, ...
Increase In Percentage Of
Increase In Percentage Of Tenancy In Cotton States-1880-1925 In Cotton Growing Areas In Ten Southern States, Accord Ing To 1920 Census Figures, There Were 1,030,321 Farm Owners And Managers To 1,345,805 Tenants, A Ratio Of 45 Owners To 55 Tenants. Of These Renters 284,180 Were Classified As Cash Tenants, 487,770 ...
Living
Living Set Over Against Opinions As To How The Cotton Farmer Lives, We Have The Studies Done By The United States De Partment Of Agriculture And Other Research Groups On Rural Standards Of Living. These Studies Have Been Under Taken In Many Of The Divisions Of The United States, But ...
Marketing
Marketing The Methods By Which Cotton Is Marketed " Are Inher Ent In The Credit System. The Crop Lien, As Said Above, Is A Form Of Restrictive Credit Which Assigns To The Creditor The Control Of The Sale Of The Product. Accordingly, Cot Ton Produced On Rented Land Or On ...
Opinions
Opinions Attitudes As To The Standard Of Living He Has, Or Should Have, Might Lead One To Believe That The Cotton Farmer Is The Victim Of A Preconception Of His Role. When He Arrived On The Scene After The Civil War, Cotton Had Merely Changed Its Status From A Slave ...
Peerless Exposition
Peerless Exposition Shows Want Concessions Of All Kinds. Now Playing North Georgia Where There Is Plenty Of Cotton Money. Have 5 Rides, 6 Shows, Band, 10 Concessions. Positively Out All Winter. Haven't Closed In Seven Years. 'nuf Said." Given As An Added Attitude, The Fact That All Cotton Growers, Even ...
Specialized Region
Specialized Region The Cotton Belt Of The American South Is Thus One Of The Most Highly Specialized Agricultural Regions In The World. It Contains About 295,000,000 Acres, Nearly One-sixth Of The Land Area Of The Continental United States, Extends 1600 Miles In Length, And Averages 300 Miles In Breadth. In ...
Speculative Nature Of Cotton
Speculative Nature Of Cotton Raising On The Producer Of Cotton Falls The Burden Of Two Great Risks Of Nature : The Weather And The Weevil. To The Vicissitudes Of Production Must Be Added Another Hazard Just As Great—the Risks Of The Market. The Great Variations In Production Suggest Wide Variation ...
System
System System May Be Defined As The Complex Organization Of Financing, Growing, And Marketing Cot Ton. It Includes Croppers, Tenants, Small Farmers, And Planters Who Comprise The Growers, Plus The Banks, Sup Ply Merchants, Factors, And Fertilizer Dealers Who Finance The Crop And The Cooperatives, Local Buyers, General Buy Ers, ...
The Boll Weevil
The Boll Weevil Today The World's Largest Consumer Of Raw Cotton Is The Boll Weevil. None Of The Risks Attendant Upon Cotton Have Equaled This Little Insect In The Drama Of Its Appear Ance And The Tragedy Of Its Effect. In 1896 Dr. L. 0. Howard, Entomologist Of The Department ...
The Central River Bottoms
The Central "river Bottoms" "alluvial Soils Occupy A Larger Area In The Cotton Belt And Subtropic Crop Belt Than In Any Other Region In The United States," 2fl And They Are The Most Highly Special Ized In Cotton. America Drains Itself Into The Cotton Belt, Sloping From The Appalachian Table-land ...
The Cotton Cropper
The Cotton Cropper Since He Requires No Additional Capital The Plantation Laborer May Easily Set Up As A Share Cropper. He Needs Only To Be Willing To Take A Part Of The Risk Of Cotton Production And To Gain The Confidence Of The Plantation Owner. J. T. Walker, A Negro, ...
The Cotton Culture Complex
The Cotton Culture Complex A Kind Of Natural Harmony About The Cot Ton System. Its Parts Fit Together So Perfectly As To Sug Gest The Fatalism Of Design. Nature's Harmony Of The Soil, The Rainfall, The Frostless Season, The Beaming Sun, And A Transplanted Tropic Plant Fit Well With A ...
The Cotton Share Tenant
The Cotton Share Tenant The Step In The Tenure Ladder From Cropper To Share Or Cash Tenant Is More Difficult. To Secure Mules And Implements Requires Industry, Economy, And Good Crops. The Negro Cropper Seeking To Rise In Tenure Status May Meet With The Reluctance Of The Landlord To Relax ...
The Cotton System At
The Cotton System At The Turn Of The Quarter Century Cotton Is Characterized In Extensive Agricultural Production In America By Four Interrelated Factors : Cotton Is Produced With A Large Percentage Of Expensive Credit ; It Is Often Produced In Connection With A Small Percentage Of Other Crops ; It ...
The Eastern Cotton Belt
The Eastern Cotton Belt The Eastern Cotton Belt Is Divided Into Five Subregions Differing In Soil, Characteristic, Vegetation, And Extent Of Cotton Culture. In This Region The Cotton Acreage Begins At The Southern Border Of Virginia And Swings Southwest Ward Through North Carolina, South Carolina, And Georgia In Two Unequal ...
The Family Living From
The Family Living From The Farm An Evaluation Of The Family Living From The Cotton Farm Is Faced With An Equal Number Of Perplexities. Its Important Place Cannot Be Denied. Food, Fuel, And Shel Ter Come High To Urban Dwellers, And It Simply Adds To, The Farmer's Standard Of Living ...
The Farm Owner
The Farm Owner The Rise From Share Tenancy To Land Ownership Is Best Accomplished Where Industry And Application On The Part Of The Tenant Is Met By An Attitude Of Helpfulness On The Part Of The Landlord. This Attitude Often Exists In In Stances Of Cordial Personal Relations Between Tenants ...
The Gulf States Belt
The Gulf States Belt From South Carolina In The Eastern Belt The Upper Coastal Plain Swings Through Southern Alabama Into Central Mississippi. These Two States Comprise The Gulf Section, The Second Oldest Division Of The Cotton Belt. It Contains Several Varieties Of Soils That Give Rise To Sub Regions. The ...
The Landlord
The Landlord The Highest Position In The Tenure Ladder Is That Of Landlord. The Passing Of The Old Planter And The Rise Of The New Small Town Merchant Into Absentee Ownership As A Speculative Venture Is Shown In The Following Case." A Genuine Love Of The Soil And A Desire ...
The Plantation Today
The Plantation Today That The Cotton Plantation Is A Real Factor In The Pres Ent Cotton System Is Well Known. As Already Shown, The Change From Slave To Free Labor " Involved The Substitution Of Cultivation By Tracts Or Parcels Of Land Instead Of Cultivation By The Whole Plantation As ...
The Regions Of The
The Regions Of The United States Extraordinary Diversity Of Geographic Con Ditions In The United States Is Accompanied By A Sur Prising Uniformity Of Economic Opportunity And Social Conditions And A Similarity Of Culture Has Often Been Commented Upon. Russia, For Instance, Is The Only Nation Which Compares With The ...
The Risks Of Cotton
The Risks Of Cotton Production : The Weather And The Weevil A More Or Less Common Saying Throughout The South That Cotton Is Dynamite. The Phrase Means That The Two Million And More Of Southern Farmers Who With Their Families Owe Their Living To Cotton Depend Upon A Commodity Subject ...
The South And Cotton
The South And Cotton The Inevitable Illustration Of The Trends Discussed Above Is The South. It Furnishes The Region Most Defi Nitely Committed To The Production Of One Economic Plant, The Staple Of Cotton. In The Cotton Kingdom It Has Fur Nished The Most Sharply Defined Section And Has Led ...
The Trend Of Prices
The Trend Of Prices Cotton Prices Are The Barometer Of This Ever Changing Relation Between Supply And Demand. From The Beginning Of Cotton Culture In America They Have Shown A Varied Range. Prices Were Rising When Whitney Invented The Cotton Gin In 1793, And By 1901 The Consequent Increased Production ...
The Weather
The Weather Until The Appearance Of The Boll Weevil The Weather Figured As The Chief Factor Of The Risks Of Nature Likely To Make Or Break The Cotton Farmer. Most Planters Would Agree, No Doubt, With The Statement Of One That "the Cotton Plant Is The Most Tender Plant That ...
The Western Belt
The Western Belt The Movement To The Western Belt Came Compara Tively Late. Texas Was Added To The List Of Cotton States In 1845 And In The Statistics Of 1859 And 1869 Ranked Fifth In Production. By The Census Of 1890 The State Had Assumed The Leading Place In The ...