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INDEX 



O. 



'dum, Howard W., 8. 



Oil mill, cotton, 29. 



Oklahoma, 14, 22-23, 66-67, 128- 

 34, 184, 203. 



Olmsted, F. L., on white labor, 

 206. 



One-horse cotton farmer, char- 

 acterized, 319. 



Overseer, on old plantation, 

 48-9. 



L age, Walter Hines, on the 

 "forgotten man" 312. 



Palmer, Edward, Dr., finds boll 

 weevil in Mexico, 89. 



Paradox of value, 122-24, 141. 



Park, Robert E., on plantation 

 system, 35-36. 



Pearse, Arno S., on family 

 labor, 210. 



Pellagra, 248-49, 298. 



Peterkin, Julia, 171. 



Phillips, Ulrich B., on planta- 

 tion system, 36, 37, 70, 205; on 

 railroads and cotton produc- 

 tion 116; on social relations on 

 plantation, 50; on staple crops, 

 36-37. 



Picking cotton, 166-68; effect of 

 machine on, 318-19; wage 

 hands in, 73. 



Piedmont Plateau, 16, 17; in 

 North Carolina, 227-30. 



Pink bollworm, 88-89. 



Plantation, the, case studies of, 

 74-76 ; characteristics of, 38-39, 

 79; census of, 69-70; clothing 

 on, 47-48; and Civil War, 53- 

 54; decadence of, 54-57; defi- 

 nition of, 69-70; diet on, 47- 

 48; distribution of, 31-32; 

 evolution of system of, 34-53; 

 influence of, 44; internal struc- 

 ture of, 45-46; management 

 of, 71-73, 77, 163-64; migra- 

 tion of, 43, 45; modern 68-79; 

 overseer on, 48-49; routine on, 

 47; from slave to free labor 

 on, 54-60; social relations on, 

 49-50, 79; Virginia Colony and, 

 36. 



Poe, Clarence H., on cotton 

 credit, 177. 



Population, distribution of in 

 South, 29-31; Negro, 30-31; 

 rural, 29-30; urban, 29-30; 

 white, 30-31. 



Pork, as food for cotton farmers, 

 298. 



Prices of cotton, and acreage, 

 120-22; average farm, 1878- 

 1927, 125-26; average per 

 acre, 125-26; cycle of, 117-18, 

 126-28; effects of high, 138-40; 

 effects of low, 113-14, 137-38, 

 141; history of, 115-17; plan 

 for stabilization of, 147-48; 

 world, 112. 



Production of cotton, cost of in 

 Great Plains, 132-33; diversi- 

 fication in, 179-92; natural 

 monopoly of, 110-12; risks in, 

 80-107. 



/acial groups, in agriculture, 

 4-5; competition of in cotton, 

 200-1. 



Rainfall, effects of on southern 

 agriculture, 23-24; effect of on 

 cotton, 86-87. 



Rankin, W. S., on effect of en- 

 vironment on cotton farmer, 

 310-11. 



Rayon, and cotton, 114. 



Recreation, expenditures for, 232. 



Recreations, of cotton tenants, 

 157. 



Red Prairies, 23. 



Reduction, of cotton acreage. 

 See Acreage, cotton. 



Regions, agricultural. See Agri- 

 cultural regions. 



Religious revivals, 164-65. 



Rent, share, 56-57; standing, 56- 

 57, 73. 



Rice culture, in old South, 40. 



Risks, of the cotton market, 108- 

 149; in cotton production, 1, 

 80-107, 149. 



River Bottoms, central. See 

 Central alluvial valleys. 



Roberts, Elizabeth Madox, 154. 



Ross, E. A., on cultural unity, 1. 



