When did king cotton move his throne (and has it moved back)?

Agricultural History

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 293-308

  Saffell, Cameron L ^a,b  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COTTON; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; INDUSTRIAL LOCATION; TEXTILE INDUSTRY; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ANTHONOMUS GRANDIS; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM;

AGRICULTURE; COTTON INDUSTRY; PRODUCTION; TEXTILE HISTORY;

EID: 0033800287     PISSN: 00021482     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (24)

1. Gilbert C. Fite, "Southern Agriculture Since the Civil War: An Overview," Agricultural History 53 (January 1979): 3-4; Douglas A. Blackmon, "Cotton Recapturing Its Former Kingdom," Atlanta Constitution, 18 October 1990, C-1, C-3; Thomas H. Orton, "The New Water Management Era and the Return of Southwest Cotton to the Old South," Agricultural History 66 (Spring 1992): 307-8, 317-19, and 330.
2. Gilbert C. Fite, "Southern Agriculture Since the Civil War: An Overview," Agricultural History 53 (January 1979): 3-4; Douglas A. Blackmon, "Cotton Recapturing Its Former Kingdom," Atlanta Constitution, 18 October 1990, C-1, C-3; Thomas H. Orton, "The New Water Management Era and the Return of Southwest Cotton to the Old South," Agricultural History 66 (Spring 1992): 307-8, 317-19, and 330.
3. Gilbert C. Fite, "Southern Agriculture Since the Civil War: An Overview," Agricultural History 53 (January 1979): 3-4; Douglas A. Blackmon, "Cotton Recapturing Its Former Kingdom," Atlanta Constitution, 18 October 1990, C-1, C-3; Thomas H. Orton, "The New Water Management Era and the Return of Southwest Cotton to the Old South," Agricultural History 66 (Spring 1992): 307-8, 317-19, and 330.
4. One of the earliest, and most concise, descriptions of these assumptions and explanations is found in B. I. Wiley, "Salient Changes in Southern Agriculture since the Civil War," Agricultural History 13 (April 1939): 67.
5. The data for this study come from the agricultural censuses conducted by the U.S. Bureau of the Census. Through 1950 the Bureau included an agriculture schedule as part of its decennial population census. This was supplemented by a separate Census of Agriculture conducted in 1925, 1935, and 1945. Beginning in 1954 the Bureau separated its agriculture schedule from the population census and conducted a Census of Agriculture every fifth year until 1974. There were four years between censuses from 1974 to 1982, after which the Census of Agriculture was taken every five years from 1982 to the present. In all cases, the year the census was recorded is not the year for which cotton production data (bales harvested) is reported; those figures are based on farmers' reports about their last cotton crop from the year prior to the census. Thus all figures and references to actual crop production refer to the year of production, not the year the census was taken.
6. As an example, see the geographic map divisions for "Cotton - Acreage, By States: 1909" in Thirteenth Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1910, Agriculture, vol. 5, 683.
7. R. Douglas Hurt, American Agriculture: A Brief History (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1994), 120-21; Gilbert C. Fite, Cotton Fields No More: Southern Agriculture, 1865-1980 (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), xi; James H. Street, The New Revolution in the Cotton Economy: Mechanization and Its Consequences (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1957), viii.
8. R. Douglas Hurt, American Agriculture: A Brief History (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1994), 120-21; Gilbert C. Fite, Cotton Fields No More: Southern Agriculture, 1865-1980 (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), xi; James H. Street, The New Revolution in the Cotton Economy: Mechanization and Its Consequences (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1957), viii.
9. R. Douglas Hurt, American Agriculture: A Brief History (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1994), 120-21; Gilbert C. Fite, Cotton Fields No More: Southern Agriculture, 1865-1980 (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), xi; James H. Street, The New Revolution in the Cotton Economy: Mechanization and Its Consequences (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1957), viii.
10. Cameron L. Saffell, "Working in the Cotton Fields of the South Plains [of Texas], 1910-1990" (master's thesis, Texas Tech University, 1996), 24-28.
11. John Turner, White Gold Comes to California (Bakersfield: California Planting Cotton Seed Distributors, 1981), 29-40; Orton, "New Water Management Era," 319.
12. John Turner, White Gold Comes to California (Bakersfield: California Planting Cotton Seed Distributors, 1981), 29-40; Orton, "New Water Management Era," 319.
13. th ed., 62-63, 104-7.
14. th ed., 62-63, 104-7.
15. th ed., 62-63, 104-7.
16. th ed., 62-63, 104-7.
17. Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, Agriculture, vol. 3, 1943, 784.
18. One probably would expect all production during the Great Depression to have declined because of drought and financial difficulties. One would then expect a recovery during World War II as production resumed to supply the war effort.
19. Street, New Revolution, 38-40; Fite, Cotton Fields No More, 91-119.
20. Street, New Revolution, 38-40; Fite, Cotton Fields No More, 91-119.
21. Gilbert C. Fite, "Mechanization of Cotton Production Since World War II," Agricultural History 54 (January 1980): 194-203.
22. Ibid., 192-203.
23. Orton, "New Water Management," 319. For more on the development of cotton moduling, see Cameron L. Saffell, "From Wagon to Module: New Ways of Handling Harvested Cotton," West Texas Historical Association Year Book 73 (1997): 46-61.
24. Orton, "New Water Management," 319. For more on the development of cotton moduling, see Cameron L. Saffell, "From Wagon to Module: New Ways of Handling Harvested Cotton," West Texas Historical Association Year Book 73 (1997): 46-61.