294 HUMAN FACTORS IN COTTON CULTURE 



labor at cotton-picking time and gets his crop out quicker 

 and in better shape. If one of his men gets behind with his 

 crop, Thomas is always able to get his other tenants to go and 

 help cultivate and chop the crop. Of course he pays them for 

 this work and charges it up to the man who got the help. 

 His yields run from three-quarters to one bale per acre, some- 

 times higher. 



In 1924 I went through a cut of fifty acres of Mr. Thomas' 

 cotton with a party including one of the most prominent cot- 

 ton agronomists in America. This gentleman stopped in the 

 middle of the field and said: "Mr. Thomas, with this cotton 

 crop, if we had the 'two quarts a month law' back in Georgia, 

 it would seem like old times." 



