GEOGRAPHY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA 



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TABLE 28. 

 Agricultural Statistics of Central Florida, 1850-1880. 



Per cent of land in farms — 



Per cent of land improved 



Improved acres per inhabitant 



Inhabitants per farm 



Total acres per farm 



Improved acres per farm 



185 

 1.2 

 0.2 

 2.7 



12.6 

 172.3 



33.5 



1860^ 

 3.8 

 1.0 

 4.6 



17.3 

 291.6 



79.5 



J^870^ 



5:7 



2.0 



6.7 



10.0 



187.6 



66.6 



_1880_ 

 7.6 

 1.6 

 3.1 

 8.7 



136.0 

 27.6 



Value of land and buildings per farm ($) 



Value of implements and machinery per farm 

 Value of livestock, poultry, etc., per farm 



Number of slaves per farm 



Number of horses per farm 



Number of- mules per farm 



Number of work oxen 



Number of milch cows per farm _. 

 Number of other cattle per farm _. 



Number of sheep per farm 



Number of hogs per farm 



Number of chickens per farm 



Number of other poultry per farm 



1195 

 172 

 696 



2550 



119 



1149 



578 



42 



583 



1354 

 29 



278 



4.3 



1.8 



0.5 



0.9 



22.4 



74.1 



0.8 



37.4 



7.3 

 2.2 

 1.5 

 0.7 



27.4 



102.0 



3.2 



43.0 



1.1 

 0.7 

 0.3 

 6.1 



50.0 

 0.4 



13.5 



1.2 



0.2 



0.7 



1.7 



26.4 



1.4 



13.2 



16.0 



5.7 



■fOT 



$285 



Expenditure for fertilizers, per farm 



Value of animals slaughtered, per farm 



Value of orchard products, per farm 



Value of market garden produce, per farrii 

 Value of staple crops, per farm 



295.60 

 0.26 



0.47 



154.00 

 4.09 



0.61 



42.40| 

 6.171 



J 



0.04| 



from long cultivation, and the farmers were seeking fresher fields 

 elsewhere. At the same time the number of farms nearly doubled, 

 perhaps indicating a large immigration of small farmers from 

 northern Florida or other states and countries. In 1880 commer- 

 cial fertilizers were just beginning to be used, the expenditure for 

 them the previous season having been at the rate of 11 cents for 

 each acre of improved land in the whole area (only about 2 cents 

 in Marion County, and none at all in Hernando). 



CONDITIONS IN 1889-9O AND 1894-5. 



The establishment of Citrus, Lake, Osceola and Pasco Coun- 

 ties in 1887 made it possible to use the 1890 statistics for separate 

 regions, as shown in Table 29. But the percentage of farm land 

 and improved land cannot be estimated accurately for those re- 

 gions that cover less than half of any one county, which accounts 

 for some blanks in the first two lines of figures. 



