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in cotton practically all of his life, but he stopped making 

 cotton except about one bale per year and sometimes three 

 or four bales, but he raises everything to eat. He carries a 

 load of cut wood to town each time he makes a trip and 

 thereby makes each trip count. He has pigs, a milk cow 

 and some of almost everything that he raises for sale each 

 year. He values time and he values money. His farm is now 

 in good condition, equipped with mower, reaper, wagons, 

 teams, etc. It is paid for and he has money out on interest. 

 He has an automobile but he paid for this when he bought 

 it, and now he practically pays for his fertilizer each year 

 with the interest that he receives from the money that he 

 has loaned. 24 



(B) A man who raises cotton but is never compelled to 

 sell it on a low market. His wife sells chickens, strawberries, 

 cantaloupes, vegetables of all kinds and they are willing to 

 make sacrifices to keep out of debt. This man has an auto- 

 mobile, but it was not bought on a credit. 



3. (A) One farmer raised cotton first and made an abun- 

 dance every year and raised a little feed and practically no 

 food. He had practiced this policy prior to 1912 and suc- 

 ceeded fairly well until the year 1912, and of course during 

 the period of the war he made money, but the year 1920 

 practically broke him, and during the past six or eight years 

 he continued this policy until he lost his farm, live stock 

 and everything he had, his life time earnings. 25 



(B) Another farmer of about the same class so far as 

 size of his farm and equipment and equally as industrious, 

 farmed on the plan of raising his feed and food first and 

 his cotton second; has not lost his farm. He apparently did 

 not make as much money during the period of the war, but 

 his losses in 1920 were not disastrous, and he has gradually 



24 Letter from a N. C. merchant, March, 1928. 



25 Letter from planter, Helena, Ark., April, 1928. 



