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was carried out by the North Carolina Tenancy Com- 

 mission in 1922. The data are presented by C. C. Taylor 

 and C. C. Zimmerman in Economic and Social Conditions 

 of North Carolina Farmers. The survey included 1,014 

 farm families divided between three counties typical of 

 the Mountain, Piedmont, and Coastal Plain sections. In 

 the Coastal Plain county, the 339 farms studied had 93.6 

 per cent of their crop land in cotton, corn, and tobacco ; 

 in the Piedmont the 335 farms surveyed had 81.4 per 

 cent in these three crops. As the mountain farms do not 

 grow cotton they are omitted. The data were analyzed 

 both in regard to race and status of tenure: operator- 

 landlords, owner-operators, tenants, and croppers. In- 

 comes ranged all the way from $2,385.85 for white land- 

 lords to $640.59 for Negro croppers in the Coastal 

 Plains. In the Piedmont the range for the same groups 

 is from $994.70 to $208.60. The highest group received 

 $1.25 per day per member of the family; the lowest 

 barely ten cents. 34 



Table XIV shows the average cash income these investi- 

 gations show per family of five for 1921. 



In the Coastal Plains 23 per cent of the 339 farmers 

 studied were landowners; in the Piedmont 54 per cent 

 of 335 families owned their farms. In the Coastal Plains 

 59 per cent of the families studied were white; in the 

 Piedmont, 56 per cent. Renters averaged 5.42 members 

 per family in the Piedmont and 5.05 in the Coastal 

 Plains, while the landowner had 4.17 and 5.37 persons 

 per family. The average number of acres cultivated per 

 family was slightly less than eighteen ; for renters it was 



34 Taylor and Zimmerman, Economic and Social Condition of 

 North Carolina Farmers, p. 27. Report of State Tenancy Commis- 

 sion, 1922. 





