236 HUMAN FACTORS IN COTTON CULTURE 



They found the average cash income to be $424 per 

 family, divided by races and tenure as follows : 55 



TABLE XVI 



MONEY INCOME OF NORTH CAROLINA 

 FARM FAMILIES 



The share tenants were found to have a cash income 

 less than half that of owners, and croppers received less 

 than a third. The Negroes tended to outrank the white 

 tenants and croppers. The variable factor we most need 

 to know in this connection is the size of the farms. 



It is necessary to emphasize in regard to the cotton 

 farmer two facts : first, the extreme concentration of the 

 farm's cash income on cotton, and second, the fluctua- 

 tion in living purchased that results from the variations 

 in price of cotton. It is difficult to overestimate cotton's 

 place in southern agriculture as a cash crop. For ex- 

 ample, studies 56 have shown that farms in Catawba 

 County, North Carolina, with only 6 per cent of their 

 tillable land planted to cotton, draw 35 per cent of their 

 total cash receipts from the sale of lint and seed ; in Jones 

 County, Mississippi, 8 per cent of the land in cotton 

 accounts for 38 per cent of the total income; while 



55 Ibid., p. 66. 5 Hawthorne, op. cit., Table I, p. 4. 



