2g6 FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT. 



As this region is much smaller than a count}- no, statistics 

 of its population and the amount of improved land can be ob- 

 tained from the census reports. White people seem to be in the 

 majority around Crawford ville, the county-seat, and negroes near 

 the Wakulla River. (Some of the negro houses have chimneys of 

 a type which seems to be peculiar to this region, the lower part 

 built of rough limestone boulders and the upper part of the fa- 

 miliar sticks and mud.) 



The amount of cleared land is perhaps 25%, but not all (jf 

 this is in cultivation at one time. The use of commercial fertilizer 

 seems to be almost unknown* (as in Holmes Valley previously de- 

 scribed), and probably for this reason it is found advantageous 

 to let the land lie fallow part of the time. Although no crop sta- 

 tistics for this region by itself are available, it probably includes 

 niost of the cultivated area of Wakulla County; and the follow- 

 ing were the leading crops of the count 3^ in 191 2, in order of val- 

 ue : Corn, sweet potatoes, peanuts, sugar-cane, upland cotton, 

 velvet beans, oats, field peas (and hay thereof), watennelons, 

 pears, peaches, pecans, (grass) hay, and grapes. (A region where 

 wild grapes and muscadines are so abundant ought to be well 

 adapted for grape culture.) 



*The average annual expenditure for fertilizers, per acre of improved land, 

 in Wakulla County was about six cents by the state census of 1905 and four 

 cents by the government census of rgio ; or approximately 1/40 as much per acre 

 as for the state as a whole. As most of the fertiHzer was presumably used in 

 the flatwoods parts of the county (regions 9 and 15), it is evident that practically 

 none is used in this region; which corroborates the testimony of the farmers 

 fsfce page 290). 



