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[June 



ber of improved acres managed by white and negro farmers, and the 

 value of farm buildings, for both races separately and combined. 



TABLE 2. AGEICULTURE 



REGIONS, ETC. 



fo P. 



Imijroved 

 acres per 

 farm 



V'alue of 

 buildings 

 per farm 



Whole state, 1900 



1910 



Upper Piedmont 



Louver Piedmont 



Sand-hills 



Upper pine belt 



Lower pine belt 



Cape Fear pine-barrens 

 Coast strip 



20 whitest counties 



23 blackest counties 



29.6 

 31.2 



0.78 45.0 



2.49 



45.1 



50.1 

 43.9 



26.6 



26.8 



304 

 617 



67 173 

 155 364 



41.1 1.77 

 4:1.0\l.63 

 25.612.36 

 32.913.75 

 20.211.94 

 11.9 2.96 

 15.0 2.78 



68.0 

 39.4 

 62.0 

 36.8 

 42.4 

 81.7 

 8.1 



31.9 

 46.0 

 38.7 

 52.1 

 58.5 

 26.7 

 100.0 



26.9 

 31.0 



27.0 

 26.8 

 21.8 

 13.8 



1S.4 



536 

 680 

 453 

 726 

 570 

 271 

 1083 



1831422 



157 

 126 

 156 

 141 



104 

 122 



363 

 337 

 365 

 324 

 243 



33.8 

 29.2 



2.45 

 2.62 



58.0 

 32.8 



37.1 



55.4 



28.4 

 25.8 



556 



720 



169 

 146 



393 

 335 



The densest population is in the upper Piedmont region, where 

 the most manufacturing is, but the coast strip is a close second, on ac- 

 count of containing the state's principal seaport, which includes nearly 

 half the population of that strip. The other extreme is in the Cape 

 Fear region, which has the poorest soil. The last named has the largest 

 percentage of whites ; \vhile the coast strip has the most negroes and 

 also the most foreigners, for more or less obvious reasons. The per- 

 centage of negroes and foreigners in the state as a whole has de- 

 creased in recent decades. 



The aggregate illiteracy is least in the two regions that have the 

 smallest proportion of negroes, and would probably be greatest in the 

 coast strip but for the fact that nearly half the population of that 

 region is urban and therefore has pretty good school facilities. Il- 

 literacy among the native whites, curiously enough, is greatest where 

 negroes are fewest, and vice versa, as may be seen not only from the 

 highest and lowest figures in that column, but also from the statistics 

 of the two divisions of the Piedmont, which, as already stated, are 

 similar in natural features but differ widely in racial composition, and 

 from the two groups of counties with different proportions of negroes. 



