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North Carolina Cotton Field Life and Industry Rise
The article extols cotton picking, notes workers largely as Black labor, and outlines North Carolina's cotton industry growth. It highlights field conditions, machinery limits, and the regional shift of mill activity to the South, with Pinehurst to the South Carolina line as a prime cotton belt and rising land values driven by yields and prices. Bion H. Butler.
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Pittsburgh
United States
Union
New England
Connecticut
Merrimac
South
North Carolina
Vass
North
United States Department of Agriculture
Pinehurst
Hoke
Scotland
Robeson
Richmond
South Carolina
Marlboro
Chesterfield
Sandhill
Bion H. Butler