A 1901 magazine article in The Outlook in which Max Bennett Thrasher describes a visit to an Alabama cotton plantation and surveys cotton culture in the American South. It covers plantation and tenant systems, planting, picking, ginning (roller and Whitney saw gins), baling, cottonseed uses, prices and crop statistics, the history of cotton growing worldwide, and cotton market time in Southern towns. Illustrated with halftone photographs of pickers, fields, a primitive cotton factory, and an Alabama village.