Show COON oN AND COTTON Study ii in Black and White l s 4 4 15 9 e I The Tte T e Mississippi Mia river liver is a wonder The soil it carries caTTles south produces grain northward cotton COlton Intermediately and sugar on the southern frontier The areas are clearly cIery c y defined In lIk uc ucc cession c lon the tM crops are gathered first the th grain next t e t ton and lastly luUy the sugar r Various devices have been tried tiled to gather the cotto Millions have be n invested in Inventions U but still BUll the negro continues J to te be the standard I cotton picker of the ay y In Arkansas Arkan Old Black Bleak Joe seen Men in inthe inthe Inthe the illustration is 18 considered red worth more per head bead than all the cotton a pick pickers pickers ers era ever invented In the Yazoo valley or Of bottoms few white men anen can survive ur e In II Ip the terrible malarial and miasmatic fogs that arise An average cf cr about one on white to five negroes n roes i is maintained hy by liberal doses does of corn com juice and quinine Whites Invade the tIM area Induced by b agents and railways but soon BOOn disperse or die and those e that struggle and maintain an existence continually drop out Hence several counties in Mississippi are called the Shoestring district and Dd the Black belt I where necessity requires that black blackmen blackmen men urea hold most meat of nf the The TIM black bluck mans mei w skin akin ts Is Impervious to the germ ana it who will Nowhere In the tile south are aze health healthier ier Jer finer er looting hooking blacks than In h the Delta where they own dwellings and cotton ald IW have h has bank k accounts and Where fortunes fortu of f are com coin common mon mono to t ie colored race |