Identifier: cottonitscultiva01burk (find matches)
Title: Cotton, its cultivation, marketing, manufacture, and the problems of the cotton world
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Burkett, Charles William, 1873- Poe, Clarence Hamilton, 1881-
Subjects: Cotton growing Cotton manufacture
Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Page
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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friends, the ene-my. It is the report of the Commissioners sent 34 cotto:n out by the British Government to investigate thecotton-growing possibilities of East Africa; andwith this parting shot we shall drop the question ofpossible foreign competition with the SouthernStates: All efforts to raise cotton successfully elsewherethan in the Southern part of the United States havefailed. This is the home of the cotton plant, and ifit will grow and fruit elsewhere to the extent thatthe staple have a substantial commercial value, thefact is yet to be demonstrated. It was experi-mented with under different suns during and afterthe American Civil War, and all the experimentsfailed. Providence has given the Southern farmer amonopoly of the indispensable cotton crop, and heneed not take fright when the price soars and thereare heard threats of turning Africa, Egypt or othercountries into cotton fields and making them furnishthe worlds supply. tT I t II Mil II mill 2: s o -ba o o u 2 o o H u QO 1
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CHAPTER IV. THE MEN WHO MAKE COTTON: WHITES ANDBLACKS; PLANTERS AND TENANTS Unique in many other features already men-tioned, cotton is also unique among American staplesin that it is the favorite crop of the negro farmerand that in its production a larger number of ten-ants are employed than in any other crop. WHY THE NUMBER OF TENANTS INCREASED IN 1890- 1900 Of the farms in the ten Cotton States in 190048.3 per cent, were operated by owners, 20.3 percent, by cash tenants, and 31.4 by share tenants—showing a decrease for the decade of 15 per cent, inproportion operated by owners, a gain of 12 percent, in the proportion worked by share tenants, anda gain of 33.1-3 per cent, in percentage operated bycash tenants. Of share tenants there are severalclasses. Some rent land only, paying thereforone-fourth of the farm product; others are fur-nished land, stock, tools, and one-half fertilizer,and receive one-half the crop, while still others arecontent to furnish labor only for one-third t

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