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King Cotton
Gives Fanner
Major Income
King Cotton, now sharing its
throne with many products, has
provided North Carolina farmers
with a major portion of their in
come for over two centuries.
To many Tar Heel farmers it
is still the leading cash crop, and
on a statewide basis it ranks sec
ond to tobacco. Income from the
crop in 1962 was estimated at $65
million. j
Kittle is known about the early
history of cotton in America ex
cept for the fact that it waa
planted by early English colo
nists as soon as they were esta
blished at Jamestown.
Many historians believe the
first cotton grown commercially
was in the Tidewater area oC
northeastern North Carolina, If
still is grown quite extensively
there today. ,
From the Tidewater area cot
ton moved westward across towns
of Wilmington and Charleston, S.
C., also moved west and north to
establish cotton farms a!id plan
tations in the lower Coastal Plain
and Piedmont regions.
By the mid-r700s, cotton was
being produced from the Atlantic
coast to the Blue Ridge Moun
tains.
It made its debut first as a
family enterprise but soon grew
into slave-labor plantation di
mensions, especially in the flat
lands of the Coastal Plain and
some sections of the Piedmont.
In the latter, however, it remain
ed primarily a family type opera
tion.
In the early days practically all
commercially grown cotton was
shipped to England. But Since
the erection of Slators Cotton
Mill in Rhode Island in 1790, the
bulk of North Carolina cotton
has remained in this country for
processing.
This important fact, reinforced
by the invention of the cotton gin
in 1794, helped North Carolina
grow from a few hundred acres
in 1800 to over a half million in
years immediately following the
Civil War.
By 1881 the acreage had climbed
to over a million and rose to 1,
802.000 In 1926. In that year a re
cord crop of 1,208,000 bales were
produced in the state.
Since 1933 the trend has been
downward. In 1961 cotton allot
ments in North Carolina totaled
83,614, ranging in size from three
tenths of an acre to 800 acres.
The 263,000 acres harvested in
1958 was the smallest acreage on
record according to estimates
dating back to 1866.
Tne trend since 1958 has been
slightly upward, ranging from
390.000 acres harvested in 1959 to
approximately 408,000 in 1962.
Average yields have fluctuated
considerably since 1950 when in
tense boil weevil activity reduced
yields to an all-time low of 149
pounds pfir acre. The year of low
est acreage, 1958, had the high
est record average of 466 pounds.
Estimates for 1962 indicate an
average of 359 pounds. Some
counties, such as Scotland and
Northampton, have consistently
pushed their average yield above
a bale per acre (500 pounds of
lint) with the adaption if inten
sive production programs. Many
individual producers have grown
two bale., per acre, and a few
have reached three bales.
The movement of cotton acre
age within the state has been ra
ther intense in recent yeans, es
pecially since the release and re
appointment program went into
effect in 1960.
In 1926, 41 per cent of the to
tal crop was produced in the
Piedmont as compared to 28 per
cent in 1959 and about 15 per
cent in 1962.
Robeson with 55,000 alloted a
cres was the biggest cotton pro
ducing county in 1962. Halifax,
Northampton, Cleveland and
Sampson produced more than 30,
000 acres each. Other top coun
ties were Scotland, Johnson,
Nash, Hoke and Edgecombe.
Mechanization has made wide
inroads in recent years. Many of
the larger farmers are now com
pletely mechanized, whereas
hand labor and mules produced
the crops a few years ago. In 19
56 only eight mechanical pickers
were operating in the entire state.
In 1962 some 400 pickers harvest
ed 20-30 per cent of the crop.
Chemical weed control has tak
en over entirely in some locales.
Intensified boll weevil programs
are carried on by many commu
nities involving till producers.
The all recommended practice
procedure is fast catching on and
is helping to create new record
yields that a short time ago
would have seemed fantastic and
impossible.
Cotton research, both funda
mental and applied, has been
up considerably and is being car
ried out through a coordinated
program involving North Caro
lina State College, the United
States Department of Agricul
ture, the North Carolina Depart
ment of Agriculture, and the N.
C. Extension Service.
The North Carolina Cotton
Promotion Association organized
in the 1950’s and financed pri
marily by growers contributions
is doing much to promote cotton’s
welfare in the state and nation.
As for the future, cotton is ex
pected to continue moving into
the Coastal Plain. Production u
nits will become larger, mechani
zation will increase, yields and
income will climb.
Cotton may never become king
again, but it will be one of the
ruling princes of North Carolina
agriculture as far as we can see
into the future.