256 HUMAN FACTORS IN COTTON CULTURE 



Less guano used under cotton $198. $541. 4k;; Less ginner's 

 toll, $48.00, Total net value of cotton, $493.42. 



James Smith the tenant received one half, or $246.71. 



By counting the number of days labor consumed in making 

 and gathering said cotton crop, I hereby certify that my 

 one half interest in cotton paid only 29^ per day for labor 

 producing it. 



I am a cotton farmer and have been such for 17 years. In 

 1920 I planted only one acre of corn and no wheat, but 

 placed my entire time and that of my family in producing 

 the above cotton crop. 



Dated at Lincolnton, N. C., this the 8th day of Dec, 1920. 



The restless, roving cropper continually looking for 

 something better comes to be regarded as shiftless and 

 dishonest. His mobility brings him into conflict with the 

 landlord : 



How may the unscrupulous tenant farmer be controlled? 



About December 15, 1924, a large family of darkeys 

 moved into a farmer's tenant house. 



They got Christmas supplies, wood, house rent, etc., 

 amounting to about fifty dollars. 



In January, 1925, they moved out without notice for parts 

 unknown. 



About February 1925 a white family moved in and stayed 

 three months. After getting house rent, wood and supplies 

 for three months, they moved to a cotton mill. 



Another white family moved in and stayed one month. 



What is to be done with these dishonest, unprincipled, 

 nomadic tenants? 



There should be made a record of all of the sorry ingrates 

 with the name of the landlord involved, the date of the of- 



4 Letter to the Lincoln News, Dec. 10, 1920. 



