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4. Some Economics of Cotton Production in the Southeastern States 1
Author(s) -
Gist F. W.
Publication year - 1928
Publication title -
agronomy journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.752
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1435-0645
pISSN - 0002-1962
DOI - 10.2134/agronj1928.00021962002000030004x
Subject(s) - statistician , citation , agricultural economics , production (economics) , livestock , agriculture , crop , agricultural science , agricultural experiment station , economics , political science , mathematics , geography , forestry , law , archaeology , statistics , environmental science , macroeconomics
The economic problem of agriculture, expressed in one word, is "income." If the cotton grower anywhere has a sufficient income to meet his requirements he has no problem. If he has not ~uch an income then he shall be looking for the reason why and the source of correcting the evil. Has the southeastern cotton grower a sufficient income ? In presenting the facts of record we shall confine ourselves to those five states which grow cotton as a more or less universal product of all the farms, viz., Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Likewise, for comparison with western territory, we shall study only Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana. Other cotton=producing states in both areas have such wide sections without cotton that official statistics may not be readily used within state lines.