2^2 FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY I3TH ANNUAL REPORT 



The tables for white and negro farmers separately present 

 many interesting features which it would take too long to discuss, 

 but most of them can be picked out readily enough with the aid of 

 the bold-face and italic figures. Generally speaking, the negroes 

 are most efficient where they are least numerous, and those on the 

 east coast seem to have nearly as high standards as the whites in 

 some other regions (as already indicated by the illiteracy figures). 



The census tells little about the foreign white farmers except 

 their numbers, but by doing a little adding, subtracting and di- 

 viding we can ascertain that of those in central Florida in 

 1910, 90.2% owned their farms, y.^'^'/c were managers, and 

 2.5% tenants; while the corresponding figures for native white 

 farmers were 84.1, 6.5, and 9.4. This agrees very well with the 

 showing with respect to illiteracy of the rural white and foreign 

 population brought out in an earlier chapter. The nationality of 

 foreign farmers is not given by counties, but a little more than 

 half of the- foreign white farmers in Florida in 1910 were in cen- 

 tral Florida, and the leading nationalities among them in the whole 

 State were English. German, Canadian, Swedish, Irish, Scotch, 

 and Danish. 



The State census of 191 5 dealt with population and manufac- 

 turing only, but for some years past the State agricultural de- 

 partment has been taking a census of crops, etc., every two years, 

 going into much more detail than the federal censuses ; and two 

 of these State censuses have been used in the foregoing pages in 

 determining the relative importance of different crops in each re- 

 gion. The nuniber of acres in cultivation in each county has been 

 given in the last few biennial crop censuses, and the report for 

 19 1 7- 1 8 gave the number and acreage of farms, but nothing about 

 the color and tenure of farmers, the value of farm property, or 

 the expenses of farming. On account of the limited funds avail- 

 able for these crop censuses the work has to be done rather hastily, 

 and the results are further vitiated by typographical errors, so that 

 it is not safe to use them for statistical work involving ratios and 

 percentages. 



