128 FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY I3TH ANNUAL REPORT 



Agriculture. Farming developed rather late in this region, and 

 is of a more specialized type than in the regions previously de- 

 scribed. Both in 1890 and in 1910 only about 16% of the area 

 was in farms and 3.2% improved. The principal features of agri- 

 culture in this region since the establishment of Lake County are 

 shown in Table 5. 



TABLE 5. 



Agricultural Statistics of Lake Region (Lake & Orange Cos.), 1890-1910 



1889- 

 1890 



1899- I 1909-1910 



1900| Total White IColor'd 



Improved acres per inhabitant 



Inhabitants per farm 



Per cent of farmers white 



Per cent of farmers, owners _. 



2.22 



5.97 



Per cent of farmers, managers 

 Per cent of farmers, tenants _. 



97.9 



2.1 



2.28 

 9.13 

 92.8 

 75.2 



18.4 

 6.4 



1.65 

 11.3 



89.7 

 80.6 



11.9 

 7.5 



2.511 0.33 

 7.551 43.0 



80.2 I 83.7 



12.6 



7.2 



5.7 

 10.7 



Average number of acres per farm 

 Average improved acres per farm 

 Value of farm land per acre ($) -- 

 Value of farm land per farm 



■Value of buildings per farm 



Value of implements and machinery- 

 Value of live-stock, poultry, etc. — 



Number of dairy cows per farm 



Number of other cattle per farm — 



Number of horses per farm 



Number of mules per farm 



Number of hogs per farm 



Number of sheep per farm 



Number of poultry per farm 



66.7| 

 13.5 



4850 



41 

 107 

 2.3 

 8.0 

 0.6 

 0.2 

 2.2 

 0.1 

 17.7 



84.0 

 20.7 

 19.30 

 1620 



513 

 57 

 260 

 1.5 



16.0 

 0.9 

 0.2 

 9.3 

 0.8 



21.4 



92.8 

 18.7 

 41.80 

 3880 



1009 

 147 



408 



1.1 

 16.5 



0.9 



0.3 



9.8 



0.3 

 21.7 



98.9 

 19.2 

 41.55 

 4110 



1070 

 155 



1.2 



0.9 

 0.3 



39.5 

 14.0 

 46.80 

 1850 



493 



74 



0.8 



0.7 

 0.2 



Expenditures per farm for fertilizer- 

 Expenditures per farm for labor 



Expenditures per farm for feed 



Annual value of crops per farm 



87.00 



Annual value of animal products 



Expend, fertilizer per acre improved- 



Expend. labor per acre improved 



Value of crops per acre improved 



• 381 

 6.42 



36.20 



77.20 



282 



1.74 

 3.72 



165.00 



190.00 



86.40 



I 9261 



' 121| 



8.841 



10.20| 



49.70J 



The census of 1910 reported two farmers in central Florida who 

 were neither white nor negro; one in Orange County and one m 

 Volusia. The writer' has no information about the color of the 

 former, but the one in Volusia County is a Chinaman, who lives 

 near DeLand (therefore in the lake region), and has made some- 

 thing of a reputation with his oranges. By subtracting the re- 

 turns for negro farmers from those for all colored farmers, it 



