Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1891 — Labor and Cotton. [ARTICLE]

Labor and Cotton.

The 8,000,000 bales of cotton grown in 1890 were the most valuable cotton crop ever produced in this country. Ever since slavery was abolished the cotton crop has been increasing, and though cotton has been low, it probably affords more profit per acre than any other crop grown on so large a scale in this country. There are two or three facts about the present cotton crop of great importance. The use of commercial fertilizers in the older States has fully maintained their old ascendency in growing cotton. Savannah, Ga., this year sold above 1,000,000 bales of cotton, a larger amount than any other cotton market in the world excepting Noav Orleans. At the close of the war all the labor in cotton-grow-ing was performed by negroes. But the profit of the crop has led white men to cultivate it, and both black and white are now seen working together in the cotton field. The wicked flee when no man pursueth, but they scratch gravel a bit faster when they are pursued just the same.