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Negro Farmer; Hammond, The Cotton Industry. Another solution to the prob- lem is often suggested, viz., the crowding out of the blacks from the Black Belt by the whites especially northerners and Germans who want to cultivate the Black Belt lands, who settle in colonies, and who have no place for the negro in their plans of industrial society. The Black Belt landlords are becoming weary of negro labor and are disposed to make special inducements to get whites to settle in the Black Belt. In Louisiana Italians have on many sugar and cotton plantations replaced negroes. Georgia and Alabama, in order to make the negro work, have recently passed stringent vagrancy laws. There is a general demand for foreigners who will work on the farms and plantations. The Manufacturers' Record during recent years has published much information in regard to industrial conditions in the southern states ; its articles on immigration are especially interesting.
