Farmer Opinions and Other Factors Influencing Cotton Production and Acreage Adjustments in the South (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: Theodore Bergen Manny
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780331423495
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Excerpt from Farmer Opinions and Other Factors Influencing Cotton Production and Acreage Adjustments in the South In the course of the study, 834 farmers in 11 counties were inter viewed. Each interview required from 20 minutes to 2 hours, or an average of about 45 minutes. The counties were chosen with the advice of State colleges of agriculture. These Counties were selected as representative of three principal cotton-growing areas east of the Mississippi River: The Mississippi Delta, the piedmont, and the South Atlantic coastal plain. In the following discussion these names are abbreviated to the Delta, the piedmont, and the coastal plain, respectively. Within each county, three representative localities, one for each field worker, were selected after consultation with the county agri cultural agent. In these localities, the enumerators tried to secure down-the-road samples, interviewing every farmer. Who was in a position to decide how much land should be planted in various crops each year. Share croppers were not interviewed because they seldom decide these matters for themselves but follow a production program outlined by the landlord or his manager. Farmers whose operations covered fewer than 2 crop years before 1931 were not questioned. Seventy to eighty completed schedules were obtained in each county. Usually the enumerators worked out from a common center and met frequently to discuss their work and standardize their methods. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.