Lanterna Rally

Author: Ellis Lore Kirkpatrick

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-05

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 9780428007409

Excerpt from The Relation Between the Ability to Pay and the Standard of Living Among Farmers: A Socio-Economic Study of 861 White Farm Families of Kentucky, Tennessee and Texas Madison County is typical of the silt loam uplands of western Tennessee. In this section land is generally rolling, well-drained, and fairly well adapted to cotton growing. Cotton occupied about 37 per cent of all crop land in Madison County in 1919. Land rose from to per acre during the two decades 1900 to 1919, a more rapid proportionate rise than was experienced by any other of the counties represented by the localities studied. Madison County with 60 per cent of its farms Operated by tenants in 1919, ranked second only to the Black Land belt of Texas in this respect. 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.