Q. He is a Chinese immigrant?--A. I mean by "goes off" he
does not go out of the State, but he goes to the hills.

Q. And to smaller ownerships?--A. To smaller ownerships.

Q. And the aim of the Southern planter is to accommodate
this tendency of things to smaller rentings?
--A. Yes, sir.

Q. Do you think a plantation is more productive where,
under a general supervision by the planter or the owner, it
is let out in small sections to the negroes to cultivate, or
is it better to cultivate the plantation as a whole?
--A. It is better to let it out, as I stated in my written
answers. The cotton crop of this country is being raised to
such an extent by the small white farmers that the large
planter can no longer afford to hire and compete with that
class of labor who only expend their own energy;
consequently the tendency is to make farmers of the negroes.

Q. What chance is there of the planter securing white
labor to carry on these plantations?
--A. There is such a small proportion of white labor in the
South that it would be difficult for him to find them, and
the tide of foreign immigration is just beginning to be
turned in that direction. There has been a prejudice against
white emigrants going to the South, on account of going
among the negroes.

Q. Do you think that is diminishing?
--A. Diminishing yearly.

Q. You mean that immigration from Europe is being employed
on the plantations?
--A. Not exactly upon the large cotton plantations, but the
smaller plantations are now being converted into farms. For
instance, there has been a large immigration of European
emigrants into that section of the country between Little
Rock and Fort Smith.

Q. Do they, upon these farm or small plantations being
converted into farms, work in companionship with the negro
laborer?
--A. No; they generally buy the land and work it themselves;
they may hire a negro and work with him; they are laborers
themselves.

Q. Is there any tendency among the white and colored
laborers of any class to work in companionship, or to
fraternize at all in labor?
--A. I cannot say that there is. A white man would not take
a negro in as a partner to work with him in the field.

Q. And will a white man find any difficulty