HOW THE COTTON FARMER LIVES 



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about six-tenths of their land in cotton, share tenants 

 over two-thirds, and croppers about four-fifths. In the 

 North Carolina study 64 it was found in the Coastal Plains 

 that owners had 2.6 per cent, landlords 7.5 per cent, 

 tenants 10.5 per cent, and croppers 20.3 per cent of all 

 their tillable land in cotton. 



Accordingly, as heretofore in the study of living stand- 

 ards, we shall be unable to strike averages that are gen- 

 eral. Instead we shall present the high and low levels of 

 living. An analysis 65 of the family living from 1,008 



TABLE XVIII 



FAMILY LIVING FROM FARM, NORTH CAROLINA, 

 GEORGIA, MISSISSIPPI 



64 Taylor and Zimmerman, Economic and Social Conditions of 

 North Carolina Farmers, p. 12. 

 85 Hawthorne, op. cit., pp. 8-9. 



