36 BULLETIN 896, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
It will be seen that in Greene and Sumter Counties, Ga., and in 
Barnwell County, S. C., practically no cultivation was reported as 
such. A reference to preceding tables will indicate that the growers 
in these areas employed other methods. The crews in Georgia, 
Alabama, and South Carolina were largely 1-man and 1-mule, with 
a few l-man, 2-mule crews. In Ellis County, Tex., the cultivation 
was all done with crews of the latter size. (See fig. 12.) 
SS ee = 
Fic. 12.—Type of cultivator used in western part of Cotton Belt. 
PICK UP SQUARES IN THE BOLL WEEVIL DISTRICTS. 
Some growers spent a limited a mount of time in picking up squares 
which had fallen from the cotton plants. This work was done by hand 
and it occurred chiefly in Laurens and Sumter Counties, Ga., and 
Tallapoosa and Dale Counties, Ala. Altogether 132 farmers did 
some of this work. The time requirement varied from 3 hours to 
14.9 hours per acre. Practically the entire acreage of cotton on the 
farms reporting was gone over and the material which was gathered 
was burned. 
PICK COTTON. 
During the year 1918 the first picking of cotton was made from 
August 15 to September 1. In several areas harvesting continued 
intermittently up to the middle of December. Some picking was 
done as late as December 25 in one district. Four classes of labor 
were represented in doing the picking: First, the operator and his 
family; second, the wage laborer; third, the cropper labor; and, 
fourth, labor working on a contract basis. The first two classes are in- 
cluded under the heading ‘“ Picked by wage labor” in Table XXXYV. 
The normal quantity of seed cotton picked per day would not be 
far from 150 pounds for most districts. The yield of seed cotton per 
acre has a very important bearing on the amount of labor required in 
