262 FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY I3TH ANNUAL REPORT 



State, on account of having a larger proportion of white farmers, 

 if for no other reason. But as the northern Florida farms were 

 considerahlv larger, many of them must have required the services 

 of more than one family. In value of products per acre, however, 

 central Florida was far ahead of northern- Florida then, as now. 



TABLE 30. 



Agricultural Statistics of Central Florida and the Rest of the State, 1894-5. 



Central [ Rest of | Whole 

 Florida I State I State 



Per cent of land in farms 



Per cent of land improved 



Improved acres per inhabitant — 



Inhabitants per farm 



Average number of acres per farm 

 Average improved acres per farm 



10.24] 



3.04| 



2.24 



9.73J 



73.3 1 



21.8 I 



10.60 

 3.43 

 2.62 



14.05 

 118.7 



36.8 



10.50 

 3.33 

 2.51 

 12.21 

 99.3 

 31.4 



Value of land, fences and buildings per farm 



Value of implements and machinery per farm 

 Expenditures in 1894, per farm, for 



Labor, including board furnished 



Fertilizers 



Value of products in 1894, per farm 



1155 

 34.10 



36.80 



19.20 



607 



Expenditure in 1894, per acre improved in 1895, for 



Labor, etc. 



Fertilizers 1 



Value of products in 1894, per acre improved in 1895. 



1.17 



0.61 



19.30 



In comparing values for 1895 ^'^^^ those for other periods it 

 is well to bear in mind that a year or two after that average com- 

 modity prices reached the lowest ebb ever known in the whole his- 

 tory of the United States, or in other words, the purchasing power 

 of the dollar was greatest. 



CONDITIONS IN 1899-I9OO AND I9O4-5. 



For 1 899- 1 900 we have more complete agricultural data than 

 ever before. For the first time the farmers are divided according 

 to race, and the value of buildings separated from that of land and 

 fences ; but there are no separate statistics for white and colored 

 farmers for areas smaller than states, except in regard to land 

 tenure. Goats and bees are also returned for the first time.* 



*Cattle are subdivided rather minutely as to age and sex, but for our 

 purposes that has been a drawback rather than an advantage, for it necessitates 

 adding together several figures in the same line to get the number of cows, 

 steers, etc., and even then the results may not be strictly comparable with those 

 of other censuses. 



