Cotton Culture and the South Considered With Reference to Emigration #268496

White people make as much per hand as ever before, while the negro freedman, but half, if that. A good working white man, and a negro, also (if he would), can make and pick out ten (to) bales cotton of 450 pounds each, every year, and corn, peas, beans, wheat, etc., to feed a wife, and, say, four children. A child five years old can pick cotton.