264 VlORIDA geological survey I3TH ANNUAL REPORT 



The Middle Florida hammock belt has negroes in the majority 

 among the farmers, as in total population. The eastern division 

 of the flatwoods leads in live-stock, as before, and the east coast 

 strip in value of farm land and intensity of farming", despite its 

 rather poor soils. 



The State census of 1905, under the direction of H. S. Elliot,* 

 gave much the same sort of information about agriculture as did 

 the federal census five years before, and under the head of live- 

 stock made a distinction between "native" and "thoroughbred" 

 cattle, though the oxen and dairy cows counted may be of both 

 kinds. But the total value of livestock in each county is obtainable 

 only by adding up the figures for several different kinds, which 

 has not been done, as it would involve some duplication for the 

 reason just mentioned, and besides, the live-stock values are more 

 or less interspersed with other things in the county tables, making 

 it rather irksome to pick them out. It would be a still greater task 

 to get the quantity and value of various crops and animals for 



' the whole State, for that would necessitate adding the figures for 

 each kind for the whole 46 counties, which was not done in the 



i census volume. In getting the total value of farm products there 

 is still another difficulty, namely, the county totals as published 



i seem to include not only crops and animal products, but also the 



' value of all animals on hand, which makes a considerable exagger- 

 ation. 



The number of white and colored farmers was given, but no 

 separate statistics for the two races. As in the other State cen- 



*Mr. Elliot, who died June 24, 1920, had charge of practically all the sta- 

 tistical work of the State agricultural department during the last thirty years 

 of his life, and was the author of a 591-page handbook of Florida published in 

 1904 (see our Third Annual Report, p. 363), and of numerous phort articles. 

 He was well informed, careful and conscientious, but too modest to attach his 

 name to his handbook and census reports, and too good-natured to ins'st on 

 the printers and others who worked under his direction doing their work 

 properly. And some of the typographical and other errors in the census re- 

 ports are doubtlessj due to his being inadequately supplied with clerical assist- 

 ance. There is a brief sketch of his life in the Quarterly Bulletin of the Ag- 

 ricultural Department for July i, 1920, but it was gotten up on too short notice 

 to do him justice. 



