A 1904 magazine article by Leon Vandervort describing country life on the plantations of the Mississippi cotton belt, from the antebellum era through the postwar period. It covers plantation houses, climate adaptations, recreations, the effects of the Civil War and the shift to tenant farming, and a modern diversified farm near Birmingham as a model for the future. It is illustrated with six photographs of plantation scenes; it does not discuss textile production or weaving.