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the field at the same time more productive, thereby 

 making cotton growing far more remunerative. 



Cotton farming calls for the same variety of 

 labor-saving tools and devices as does the production 

 of any other kind of crop. As a rule, the principal 

 difference in the equipment of large and small 

 farms is in number of tools, rather than in kind, 

 size, or efficiency. 



For the information of the reader unacquainted 

 with terms commonly used in the Cotton Belt, let 

 us say that "one-horse farm" or "one-horse 

 farmer" is not meant to express derision of the in- 

 dividual, nor does it refer to social standing. The 

 term means, on the other hand, just what it says : a 

 one-horse farm on which all labor is done by a 

 single animal. The owner may be a one-horse 

 farmer, and at the same time stand high in the com- 

 munity, and have a good store of worldly goods. 

 But the value in land and equipment of a ten-horse 

 farm in cotton production is just ten times that 

 of a one-horse farm. 



And of what does this equipment consist? 

 Land, feed, stock, tools, implements, etc. Since 

 the one-horse plow is the important implement of 

 the one-horse farm, and since it is so commonly 

 used on both small farms and large plantations, it 

 may be called the typical tool of the Cotton Belt. 

 To be sure, two-horse and even three-horse plows 

 are used; the sub-soil plow occasionally has work 

 to do; the disk harrow, the roller, the cultivator, 

 are now generally known, but the "Dixie" plow 

 is the one tool that in a measure does the work of all 

 these and which finds employment on every farm, 

 regardless of its size or the wealth or standing of its 

 owner. It serves as soil-breaker, soil-pulverizer 

 and cultivator for weed destruction and winter 



