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Cotton Picking in Mississippi

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 3, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 56.

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Cotton Picking in Mississippi

A MISSISSIPPI correspondent of an Eastern journal gives this picture of the cotton picking season the present year: "The cotton season opens up in full. Our cities are left desolate. The country is made glad by the incomparable hilarity of the dusky cotton picker. In former years only the poorer city negroes spent much time in the cotton patch, but this year preachers, teachers, lawyers—nearly everybody—are in the cotton fields. Very trying times have made all classes ready for any kind of honest toil."