148 COTTON 
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 
