King Cotton Vocabulary.HallsvilleJH

Producing crops for sale.

• Commercial Farming

• Dry Farming

• Subsistence Crop

• Tenant Farmer

A crop grown to be used on the farm where it was raised.

• Subsistence Crop

• Sharecropper

• Dry Farming

• Tenant Farmer

To trade one product or service for another.

• Barter

• Sharecropper

• Dry Farming

• Landlord

A farmer who works land owned by another and pays rent either in cash or in shares of the crop.

• Tenant Farmer

• Sharecropper

• Landlord

• Commerce

A farmer who, in exchange for labor, is provided with seed, tools living quarters, and food and receives a share of the value of the crop.

• Sharecropper

• Tenant Farmer

• Landlord

• Dry Farming

The owner of property that is leased or rented to another.

• Landlord

• Commerce

• Barter

• Fallow

The buying and selling of goods and services.

• Commerce

• Manufacturing

• Fallow

• Ladlord

Producing goods either by hand or with machines for sale in large numbers.

• Manufacturing

• Commerce

• Barter

• Commercial Farming

Left unplanted for one or more growing seasons.

• Fallow

• Dry Farming

• Commerce

• Landlord

A farming approach that uses careful plowing to keep loose soil on top, slowing evaporation to keep soil moist.

• Dry farming

• Commerce

• Commercial Farming

• Landlord