Blytheville, Ark. had never seen so many folks before. On Ross Hughes’s farm there were 15,000 of them—come from as fur away as Texas to see the first annual cotton-picking championship of the U. S.

John Daniel Rust was born on Sept. 6, 1892, near Necessity, Texas. His father, Benjamin Daniel Rust, was a Civil War veteran, a farmer and a school teacher, while his mother, Susan Minerva Burnett, ...

A Missourian and graduate of the University of Missouri, DOROTHY OTIS WYREnow makes her home in Conway, Arkansas. She is the author of “Hunting,”which appeared in the October, 1952, Atlantic. EVERY ...

Southeast Texas—It’s hard to believe we’re coming up on another year of our fall cotton harvest. Hi y’all. It’s Sherry Zimmerman from Bishop, Texas, with Zimmerman Farms. We run two combines in the ...

A blazing sun beat down one day last week on the Mississippi delta cotton fields as hundreds of white-shirted, straw-hatted plantation owners, managers, ginners, dealers, bankers, scientists and ...