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[[image - black & white photograph of Negro couple working in field next to their modern home]]

[[caption]] The Negro farmer's life improves steadily with Government help [[/caption]]

THE NEGRO FARMER IN THE SOUTH, like the poor white farmer, has been the victim of the single crop.  Cotton is a cash crop but cotton planted straight to the shanty door not only bleeds the soil but makes the farmer buy much of the food he might grow on his own acres.  The Federal Government has made progress in creating a healthy small farming population out of exhausted land and exhausted people.  This is done by loans, by adjustment of farm debt, by teaching modern farming methods.  Where the furrows once ran up to the dooryard, you now see vegetable gardens to feed the farm family, hay and corn crops, chickens, pigs, and cows.