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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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ENGLISH AUTHORITIES FINALLY ADMIT THE SOUTH’S
SUPREMACY

Lastly I come to the most striking testimony of
all—direct evidence given by “ou friends, the ene-
my. It is the report of the Commissioners sent

34 COTTON

out by the British Government to investigate the
cotton-growing possibilities of East Africa; and
with this parting shot we shall drop the question of
possible foreign competition with the Southern
States:
"All efforts to raise cotton successfully elsewhere
than in the Southern part of the United States have
failed. This is the home of the cotton plant, and if
it will grow and fruit elsewhere to the extent that
the staple have a substantial commercial value, the
fact is yet to be demonstrated. It was experi-
mented with under different suns during and after
the American Civil War, and all the experiments
failed. Providence has given the Southern farmer a
monopoly of the indispensable cotton crop, and he
need not take fright when the price soars and there
are heard threats of turning Africa, Egypt or other
countries into cotton fields and making them furnish
the world's supply."

PRODUCTION OF COTTON 1900 (BY STATES)
500 lb. bales.
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BREAKING LAND FOR EGYPTIAN COTTON.
This picture of contemporary farming in Egypt might wel have been taken the day that Moses led the Israelites out into the promised
Canaan.

CHAPTER IV.

THE MEN WHO MAKE COTTON: WHITES AND

BLACKS; PLANTERS AND TENANTS

Unique in many other features already men-
tioned, cotton is also unique among American staples
in that it is the favorite crop of the negro farmer
and 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 1900
48.3 per cent, were operated by owners, 20.3 per
cent, by cash tenants, and 31.4 by share tenants—
showing a decrease for the decade of 15 per cent, in
proportion operated by owners, a gain of 12 per
cent, in the proportion worked by share tenants, and
a gain of 33.1-3 per cent, in percentage operated by
cash tenants. Of share tenants there are several
classes. Some rent land only, paying therefor
one-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 are
content to furnish labor only for one-third the yield.

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