SELF-HELP FOR COTTON 



large scale at a comparatively low cost. Most of the 

 Texas crop was always sold for export. Killough's bright 

 idea fits the Texas conditions like a bulb in its socket. 



One of the most stubborn, troublesome facts under- 

 lying the whole cotton problem is that conditions in 

 different sections of the cotton-growing areas are as 

 different as eggs and eggplant. So sharp are these dif- 

 ferences that any blanket program, whether for culti- 

 vation, marketing, or relief, is foredoomed to failure. 

 Any plan or any conclusion should always recognize 

 that the Cotton Kingdom, like all Gaul, might well be 

 divided into at least three parts. There is a fourth, like 

 the German barbarians across the Rhine in Caesars 

 Commentaries, looming up in the newly opened, irri- 

 gated sections of Arizona, New Mexico, and southern 

 California. Historically the three important, distinctive 

 sections are the Southeastern, comprising the Carolinas, 

 Georgia, Alabama, and southern Mississippi; the Delta 

 Country, stretching along both sides of the Mississippi 

 River from Natchez to Vicksburg; and Texas, which, 

 since cotton is fading out of the Gulf Coast section, 

 means today West Texas. 



The Southeastern area is the traditional "land of 

 cotton" of song and story. To most Americans it repre- 

 sents the typical cotton country. A realistic insight into 

 its conditions is badly blurred either by the rosy tints 

 of the romantic school or the muddy daubs of the mod- 

 ernists. Neither "Dixie" nor "Tobacco Road" presents a 



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