Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 173, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 November 1929 — Page 20

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COTTON LOSING CRIP AS CROP KINGINSOUTH Fertility of Soil Declines and Labor Problem Is More Perplexing. H<t Science 8 err Ice CINCINNATI, Nov. 29.—Cotton still Is king In the southland, but his throne is a bit uneasy under him, and in the course of a few years he may have to share domain with younger King Cottons who are growing up in other lands. This is the gist of a prophetic report to Economic Geography, by Professor Earl C. Case of the University of Cincinnati. The very factors that helped to establish the southern part of the United States as the leading cottonproducing area in the world now are helping in its decline, and in the rise of rival cotton regions. Our cotton belt Is a compact block of fertile soil with a climate well suited to cotton growing. But the fertility of the soil is declining, end the climate has been as favorable to the enemies of cotton—boll weevil and the rest--as it was to the cotton itself. Bad years affect the whole area and may cut down the yield 50 per cent, because it is all in one piece; whereas cotton lands elsewhere in the world, being cut up into smaller and scattered blocks, escape in most, parts when disaster visits any particular point. Another important factor that is threatening the supremacy of American cotton is the rise in the cost of cotton-farming labor ir this country. Even though the Negro and "poor white” labor of the south is among the worst-rewarded of all American agricultural work, its

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wage still is many time* higher than that of cotton-field workers in South America, India, Egypt, the Sudan and China. And the northward migration of Negroes that has been going on ever since the new immigration laws cut down the supply of unskilled laborers in northern indstrlal plants, 1s cutting seriously into the rural population of the south. The apparent determination of BritL'h cotton spinners and weavers to reduce the degree of their dependence on American cotton by increasing the quantities of the fiber grown "within the empire” is another Influencing factor. Great new cotton areas have been opened up within the last few years In India, in the Sudan and in Tanganyika, and the cotton fields of Egypt still have strong British connections in spite of the changed political status of that naiton. South American nations, notably Brazil and Argentina, are making strong efforts to become at least partly self-dependent. China, one of the greatest cotton

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