INDEX 



341 



Cotton ginning, 168-69. 



Cotton industry, a natural 

 monopoly, 110-12, 146-47. 



Cotton markets. See Markets, 

 cotton. 



Cotton oil, 29. 



Cotton plant, 12, 84. . 



Cotton planting, 151-60. 



Cotton production. See Produc- 

 tion of cotton. 



Cotton prices. See Prices of 

 cotton. 



Cotton seasons, cycle of, 150-73. 



Cotton seed, utilization of, 29. 



Cotton system, definition of, 34; 

 description of, 295; rationale 

 of, 51-52. 



Cotton tenants, biological effects 

 of poverty on, 310-11; char- 

 acter defects of, 307-10; ex- 

 clusion of from culture, 313; 

 mobility of, 153; recreations of, 

 157; supervision of, 71-73, 77, 

 163-64. See Case studies, Cot- 

 ton farmer, Diet, Housing, and 

 Cotton culture complex. 



Cotton trade, 195-96, 303. 



Credit, for cotton farmers, 155- 

 57, 174-79; charges for, 176- 

 79, 240-41; consumptive, 180. 



Crop, cash, 186; single, 218; 

 staple, 39-40. See Cotton cul- 

 ture. 



Crop lien, use of, 57, 63-64; 

 risks in, 178. 



Cropper, case studies of the, 253- 

 67; economic status of the, 73; 

 legal status of the, 56; story of 

 a Negro, 76-77. See Tenancy. 



D. 



'airy products, 234. 



Delta, cotton credit in the, 174- 

 76. See Central alluvial val- 

 leys. 



Dew, President, on philosophy of 

 slavery, 51-52. 



Dickey, J. A., on income of cot- 

 ton farmers, 235-36. 



Diet, on plantation, 47-48; of 

 cotton farmer, 171, 243-49; 

 and pellagra, 248-49, 298. 



Diseases of cotton, 87-88. 



Diversification in cotton farm- 

 ing, 179-92, 181-82, 233-55. 



Dodd, William E., on economic 

 status of planters, 44; on phi- 

 losophy of cotton kingdom, 61- 

 52. 



Du Bois, W. E. B., on Negro 

 farmers, 136. 



Dusting machines for boll weevil, 

 102. 



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I astern Cotton Belt, 15-18. 



Egypt, restriction of cotton 

 acreage in, 148. 



Ellis, C. P., and Company, on 

 family labor, 211. 



Engberg, R. A., on business 

 cycle and cotton, 127; on cot- 

 ton cycle, 117-18; on cotton 

 prices, 112. 



English spinners, on cotton prices 

 and acreage, 120; attempts of 

 to grow cotton, 208. 



Enterprize, Alabama, 101. 



Environment, cultural, of cotton 

 farmers, 310-11; effects of on 

 cotton farmers, 11-14. 



Eutsler, R. B., on farm credit, 

 177. 



JP actor, Cotton, the modern, 

 174-75; in old South, 50-51. 



Family-size farms, 201. 



Family labor on farms, 202-4, 

 210, 299. 



Family living from farms, 242- 

 49. 



Farmers, small, in old South, 44- 

 45; enter cotton system, 60- 

 68; future of, 318-19. See 

 Cotton tenants. See also En- 

 vironment, cultural. 



Farm owners, Case studies of, 

 272-88. 



Farms, comparative size of 

 northern and southern, 1850- 

 1910, 62. See Family-size 

 farms. 



Faulkner, H. W., on Virginia 

 Plantation, 36. 



Fertilizer, in Old Cotton Belt, 

 18; effect of use of, 82. 



Field, Scott, Representative, on 



