A 1904 magazine article by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips on cotton planting in the American South, centered on J. W. Young's plantation near Prattville, Alabama. It covers tenant and cropper labor arrangements, costs and profits per acre, subsidiary crops, plowing and picking routines, ginning, compressing and baling, and a local road-building project. It is illustrated with photographs of plantation life, cotton picking, and bale handling and shipment.