12 BULLETIX 1000, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
The more extensive cultural methods followed in Texas, as com- 
pared with those followed in the southeastern portions of the Cotton 
Belt, explain in some measure the differences in man-labor require- 
ments. The lower yields reported for the three Alabama areas in 
1918 will account for the low labor requirement of those areas as 
compared with that of the five districts in Georgia and South Caro- 
lina. There was marked uniformity in the average requirements 
for man labor in the latter districts. 
Farm manure is not used extensively in cotton production, largely 
because live-stock farming does" not figure as an important part of 
the farm business. Only 27 per cent of the operators who were 
interviewed applied manure to a part of the cotton land. Commer- 
cial fertilizer was applied in all districts except Ellis County, Tex. 
In Rusk County, Tex., the average application was 145 pounds per 
acre, while in Barnwell County, S. C, the average application was 
555 pounds per acre. 
The seed cotton picked per day varied under average conditions 
from 142 pounds per day in Barnwell County, S. C, to 236 pounds 
per day in Ellis County, Tex. The average amount picked per day 
in several of these districts was not far from 150 pounds of seed 
cotton. It is undoubtedly true that the rate of picking exceeds 
these average amounts during the early part of the season, more 
especially for the first and second times over, but late in the season 
the average rate would be greatly reduced on account of the smaller 
number of bolls opening at that time. 
Since picking constitutes an important part of the man labor in 
producing cotton, any noticeable reduction in yield would influence 
the total man labor requirement. In the Georgia districts it required 
45 to 57 man hours per acre (district averages) for this harvest 
work; in South Carolina the range was from 47 to 49 hours per 
acre, while in Texas the picking amounted to 24 and 32 hours, 
respectively, for the two districts. 
In 1919 farm survey and cost records were obtained in 12 southern 
counties, and the acreage of cotton represented in each of these 
areas was as follows: Anderson (S. C), 2,018; Barnwell (S. C), 
2,301; Laurens (Ga.), 3,111; Greene (Ga.), 3,000; Mitchell (Ga.), 
2,310; Lauderdale (Ala.), 1,470; Marshall (Ala.), 1,196; EUis (Tex.), 
7,408; Rusk (Tex.), 2,233; Washington (Miss.), 2,524; Monroe 
(Miss.), 1,644; Lee (Ark.), 3,347; making a total of 32,562 acres. 
