. Book of Texas . Courtesy of the Dallas News A Typical Example of the Country Gin The cotton direct from the fields is left in covered wagons to await its turnat the gin; the ginned cotton is left in bales on the ground until hauled homeor to market. A few men and horses resting from hauling cotton are to be country gin is decreasing in KING COTTON 131 to many crops, fit cotton _ almost exactly. Cotton andthe mocking-bird flourish best in the sunshine. More-over, the cultivation of cotton is not difficult, and cottonpicking, the most time-consuming operation connected withra
. Book of Texas . Courtesy of the Dallas News A Typical Example of the Country Gin The cotton direct from the fields is left in covered wagons to await its turnat the gin; the ginned cotton is left in bales on the ground until hauled homeor to market. A few men and horses resting from hauling cotton are to be country gin is decreasing in KING COTTON 131 to many crops, fit cotton _ almost exactly. Cotton andthe mocking-bird flourish best in the sunshine. More-over, the cultivation of cotton is not difficult, and cottonpicking, the most time-consuming operation connected withraising it, takes place in the fall, that delightful season ofthe year when the cooling nights and fresh mornings giveearly notice that a mild norther will before very long stillfurther herald the breaking of the summer heat. Thenit is that the darky cook, after brilin M over the summerstove, gives notice to the dismayed mistress that shesgwine to de cotton patch wid de chilluns to make moremoney picking cotton than is possible cooking meals; thenit is that a not-always-vigilant constabulary bestirs itselfand chases the lazy negroes from their loafing places in thetowns out into the cotton fields, where the snowy open bollsare fairly itching to be picked; then it is that the countryschool which has opened too soon in the fall finds itselflargely ber
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