Handwritten note in negative envelope reads: "Pressing cane for sorgum. The extracted juice is then boiled. Near Carthage Mississippi August 1938" Clipping form newspaper/magazine in negative envelope reads: Mississippi and Arkansas Deltas In the Delta lands of Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana the old plantation system survives probably more rigorously that anywhere else in the Cotton Belt. It is the most concentrated cotton-producing section of the deep South. About 85 percent pf the farm land is operated under the plantation system. Land holdings are large, and on each 15 to 20 acres of cotton there is a tenant family. The countryside was deliberately populated densely in order that there might be available on the plantation itself enought hands to meet the peak labor requirement for pickers at harvest time. These farm families are typically Negro sharecroppers, who supply only their labor under the direction of the landlord or overseer. Landlords customarily "furnish" groceries and credit while the crop is being made, and settle with their croppers after the harvest by dividing the proceeds. This is one of the main examples of what has been come to be known as "cotton tenancy.