 | Geological Survey of Alabama - Geology - 1883 - 668 pages
...farms rented out in patches to laborers who are too poor and too much in debt to merchants to have any interest in keeping up the fertility of the soil,...equal proportions, or where the whites are in only a slight excess over the blacks, as is the case in all the sections where the soils are of average... | |
 | Geological Survey of Alabama - Agriculture - 1883 - 664 pages
...farms rented out in patches to laborers who are too poor and too much in debt to merchants to have any interest in keeping up the fertility of the soil,...equal proportions, or where the whites are in only a slight excess over the blacks, as is the case in all the sections where the soils are of average... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1884 - 688 pages
...interest in keeping up the fertility of the soil, or rather they lack the ability to keep it up, with ihe natural consequence of its rapid exhaustion and a product per acre on the best lands in the State lower than that which is realised from the very poorest. Where the two... | |
 | Carl Kelsey - African American farmers - 1903 - 114 pages
...farms rented out in patches to laborers who are too poor and top much in debt to merchants to have any interest in keeping up the fertility of the soil,...equal proportions, or where the whites are in only a slight excess over the blacks, as is the case in all sections where the soils are of average fertility,... | |
 | Walter Lynwood Fleming - African Americans - 1905 - 172 pages
...farms rented out in patches to laborers who are too poor and too much in debt to merchants to have any interest in keeping up the fertility of the soil,...rather the ability to keep it up, with the natural consequences of its rapid exhaustion and a product per acre on these, the best lands of the state,... | |
 | Walter Lynwood Fleming - Reconstruction - 1907 - 542 pages
...farms rented out in patches to laborers who are too poor and too much in debt to merchants to have any interest in keeping up the fertility of the soil,...rather the ability to keep it up, with the natural consequences of its rapid exhaustion and a product per acre on these, the best lands of the state,... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1884 - 766 pages
...debt to merchants to have any interest in keeping up the fertility of the soil, or rather they lack the ability to keep it up, with the natural consequence...of its rapid exhaustion and a product per acre on the best lands in the State lower than that which is realised from the very poorest. Where the two... | |
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... whites, there are the originally most fertile lands of the State. The natural advantages of the soils are, however, more than counterbalanced by the bad system prevailing in such sections, viz : large farms rented out in patches to laborers who are... 