CHAPTER XI 



EQUIPMENT IN TEAMS AND TOOLS FOR COTTON 

 FARMS 



LABOR-SAVING machinery plays an 

 important part in the economy of pro- 

 duction of any crop. As liberal an 

 assortment of labor-saving tools is required in 

 cotton farming as in any other type of farming. 

 The principal difference in the equipment for a 

 large or a small cotton farm, under the old one 

 crop system, was mainly in the number of tools 

 rather than in the kind. The cotton farmer 

 has been slow in bringing to his aid labor- 

 saving implements in the production of crops. 

 This has been partly due to the fact that such 

 a large per cent, of farm labor in the cotton 

 belt was uneducated and unskilled in the use 

 of machinery, and partly due to the fact that 

 one man, under the one crop system of cotton 

 farming, could, with one horse and with small 

 one-horse plows or cultivators, produce as 

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