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1238 An American Dilemma
Gunnar Lange, ‘‘Trends in Southern Agriculture,” unpublished manuscript prepared
for this study (1940), pp. 23 fF.
® Woofter, “The Negro and Agricultural Policy,” p. 31.
® Lange, of, cit,, p. 27.
Fifteenth Census of the United States: igso. Agriculture, Vol. Ill, Part 2, p. 62.
U. S. Bureau of the Census, "Negroes in the United States’, ig$o-ig$2y pp. 587-
i;88, and Fifteenth Census of the United States: igso, Agriculture, Vol. Ill, p. I2,
Fifteenth Census of the United States: ig^o. Agriculture, Vol. IV, p. 510.
Ibid,, p. 891.
Frank Tannenbaum, Darker Phases of the South (1924), pp. 117-118.
U. S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Statistics, ig4o, pp. 108-109.
Planters and other cotton farmers, it is sometimes claimed, have shown that they
know how to diversify their crops whenever the cotton price is low.® Indeed, it has been
statistically ascertained that the cotton acreage—before the A.A.A.—^varied with the
price to a much greater extent than is true about most other crops.’^ But this means, on
the other hand, that Southern farmers, in spite of their poverty and their need for a
stabilized economy, have been unable to resist the temptation of making large temporary
profits whenever the price exceeds a certain point.
See, for instance, Rupert B. Vance, Human Geografhy of the South (1932), pp.
198-199; and Woofter and Associates, Landlord and Tenant, pp. 49-64.
See, for instance, Goodrich and Others, of, cit,, pp. 134-138.
Woofter and Associates, Landlord and Tenant, pp. 23 and 39.
Fifteenth Census of the United States: ig$o. Agriculture, Vol. II, Part 2, Table
46; Thirteenth Census of the United States: igio. Agriculture, Vol. V, p. 681.
U. S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Statistics, ig40, pp. 1 08-109.
“The average annual loss from insect ravages during the period 1910 to 1928 has
been estimated to be about 1 5 percent, whereof the boll weevil is held responsible for
12 percent.” (Lange, of, cit,, p. 30.)
^^In 1929, on the basis of crop value, cotton had the first place in eight Southern
states and held second place in North Carolina, where it was next to tobacco, and in
Tennessee, where corn was more important. In seven of the states (South Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas) it accounted for half
or more (in Mississippi, three-fourths) of the total crop value. Of the Southern states
outside the Border only Virginia (corn, tobacco, potatoes) and Florida (citrus fruits)
failed to have cotton among their principal crops. Corn, in most of the states, had
second place. Rice came third in Louisiana, just before sugar cane, and fourth in
Arkansas.®
Ibid,, pp. 657, 892-893.
Sixteenth Census of the United States: ig4o. Agriculture, United States Summary,
First Series, Table VI.
Woofter and Associates, Landlord and Tenant, p. 10. See also Davis, Gardner, and
Gardner, of, cit,, pp. 280-288.
White and Black in the United States (1879), p. 1 60.
* Allison Davis, Burleigh B. Gardner, Mary R. Gardner, Deep South (1941), pp.
272-273.
**
Rupert B. Vance, Human Factors in Cotton Culture (1929), pp. 118-119.
^Fifteenth Census of the United States: ig$o, Agriculture, Vol. IV, pp. 715-716,

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