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INDEX 



Branson, E. C., on income of cot- 

 ton farmer, 233-36; on mo- 

 bility of cotton tenants, 153. 



Brearley, H. C., on homicides 

 in Cotton Belt, 165-66. 



British Cotton Growing Associa- 

 tion, 208. 



Budgets, farmers', 237. 



Burgess, George F., Hon., 92. 



Burleson, Representative, 206-7. 



Business cycle and cotton, 127- 

 28. 



Byrd, Adam M., Hon., on de- 

 mand for cotton, 114. 



arsenate, for army 

 worm, 88; for boll weevil, 

 101-3. 



Cameron, Senator, 143. 



Cance, Alexander E., on family 

 labor, 299. 



Case studies, 250-94; of crop- 

 pers, 76-77; 253-57; of farm 

 owners, 272-88; of landlords, 

 288-93; of plantation owners, 

 45-46, 47-48, 58-59, 74-76; of 

 share tenants, 257-71. 



Central alluvial valleys, 20-23, 64, 

 137. 



Child labor in cotton, 161-62, 168, 

 199-204, 209-11, 299-300. 



Chopping cotton, 160-62. 



Christmas in the Cotton Belt, 

 156-57, 172-73. 



Cities built on cotton, 27-28. 



Classes, social, in the South, 312- 

 13. 



Clayton, Representative, 206-7. 



Climatology of cotton, 13-14. 



Clothing, cost of, 220-23; of cot- 

 ton laborers, 212; for slaves, 

 48; credit for, 241-42. 



Coad, B. R., researches of on 

 boll weevil, 101-5. 



Coastal Plains, 16-22. 



Coker, David R., on improving 

 cotton culture, 316; on living 

 standards of cotton farmers, 

 214; on molasses method of 

 fighting boll weevil, 103-4. 



Coker farms, 17, 316. 



Collings, Gilbert H., 195. 



Coman, Katherine, on Negro 

 farmers, 136. 



Commissaries, plantation, 135. 



Competition, of cotton areas, 

 128-34; racial, 200-1. 



Connelly, Tom, 144. 



Cooperatives. See Cotton coop- 

 eratives. 



Corn, distribution of in Cotton 

 Belt, 24; as food for cotton 

 growers, 297-98; pulling, 170. 



Cotton acreage. See Acreage, 

 cotton. 



Cotton Belt, area of, 11-12; as 

 culture area, 296-319; drought 

 in, 85; frost in, 86; homicides 

 in, 165-66; human ecology of, 

 12, 15-33; soil regions of, 14- 

 23. See Eastern Cotton Belt, 

 Western Cotton Belt, and Cot- 

 ton culture complex. 



Cotton blossom, 165. 



Cotton boll, 315. 



Cotton buyers, 302-3. 



Cotton a cash crop, 236-37. 



Cotton cooperatives, 198. 



Cotton Crop. See Crop. 



Cotton culture, breakdown of in 

 old belt predicted, 318-19 ; de- 

 mands cheap labor, 209-10; 

 description of, 157-73; effect 

 of on plantation system, 42- 

 43; inefficient methods per- 

 petuated in, 315-17. See Cot- 

 ton Belt. 



Cotton culture complex, traits of, 

 295-319. 



Cotton factor, 50-51. 



Cotton farmer, agricultural re- 

 lief for, 143-49; credit for, 155- 

 67; cultural environment of, 

 310-14; diet of, 171, 243-49, 

 297-99; fuel for, 212; housing 

 of, 234, 249-51 ; income of, 125- 

 28, 235-40; inefficient, 314-19; 

 routine of, 150-73, 221-22; 

 standards of living of, 205-51. 

 See Cotton tenants, Farmers, 

 small, and One-horse cotton 

 farmer. See also Attitudes. 



Cotton futures, 142. 



Cotton gin, effects of invention 

 of, 42; distribution of, 29. 



